Alexei Zamyatin is a Co-founder of BOB, a first-of-its-kind hybrid Layer-2 powered by Bitcoin and Ethereum. He has been a Bitcoin and interoperability research contributor since 2015 and is most known for his work on trustless cross-chain bridges and L2s. Alexei holds a PhD in computer science from Imperial College London.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Making bitcoin more useful
- Bitcoin utility
- Bridging from Bitcoin to Ethereum
- Bitcoin’s brand and recognizability
- The adoption of L2s
- Ordinals, Runes
- What are Hybrid Layer 2s
- How L2s on Bitcoin will impact the cost of transactions in this cycle
- The difficulties ETH/SOL devs would have when starting to build on bitcoin
- Merge mining
- Ordinals was Bitcoin’s Crypto Kitty moment

BOB
Website: www.gobob.xyz
X: @build_on_bob
Telegram: t.me/gobobxyz

Alexei Zamyatin
X: @alexeiZamyatin
LinkedIn: Alexei Zamyatin

 
 
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