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Build on Bitcoin: Combining Bitcoin's Security With Ethereum's Versatility - Alexei Zamyatin

March 10, 2025·1 hr 10 min·5 clips
BitVM allows Bitcoin bridging where even if all 50 operators collude, they cannot steal your assets.
Alexei Zamyatin discusses BitVM, a breakthrough enabling fraud-proof Bitcoin bridging without changing Bitcoin's core protocol, and outlines Bob's hybrid Layer 2 that merges Bitcoin security with Ethereum compatibility to unlock Bitcoin DeFi. He predicts massive growth in Bitcoin DeFi as UX improves and institutional interest rises.

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A practical look at why Bitcoin DeFi still lives or dies on trust, fees, and UX.

This conversation treats Bitcoin DeFi as a problem of trust, custody, and basic usability, not as hype. The point is blunt: if bitcoin moves onto another chain, it still has to sit with a safekeeper, and that creates a central choke point. The practical friction comes next.

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If you want the Bitcoin-DeFi bridge problem explained without hand-waving.

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