@eriklaan @Blockstream What color is your shed, because I regret to inform you that it’s wrong.
The @RSKsmart sidechain launched in January 2018. It’s now merge mined by 43% of bitcoin’s hashrate and capitalized with 250 BTC.
The Liquid sidechain is only 3 months old and still bootstrapping; it’s currently capitalized with 25 BTC from the… https://t.co/kny96TslY1
The number of OP_RETURN bitcoin UTXOs increased from 4M to 10M this year due to the rate of OP_RETURN output creati… https://t.co/I9QMkPfBL6
@Trader_Kloud There are no central points of failure that can be attacked to bring down the whole system. Centraliz… https://t.co/r2Mt04Hjr6
@OsrsLiquid Default has been advertised though I think the plan it to switch it to unadvertised eventually.
The number of known (advertised) Lightning Network channels has grown from 0 to over 19,000 while their capacity ha… https://t.co/0UHUeMBp8J
@Trader_Kloud Scale-free networks can look either centralized or decentralized depending upon your perspective.
Lightning Network: January 2018 vs December 2018 pic.twitter.com/P6LWP1RRzr
https://t.co/vFLd6EtIff estimates (by removing likely change outputs) that over $410 billion was transacted via BTC… https://t.co/fXlmhHIftW