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Alpha Leak | The Bull Case for zkBTC

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The Risks of ZK Roll Ups on Bitcoin

Bitcoin has successfully implemented soft fork upgrades in its history. So, it's reasonable to assume that we can do this again if the Bitcoin community wants ZK roll ups. If you introduce a Turing complete virtual machine module through a ZK roll up on Bitcoin, then you can have very complex, smart contract, which is run basically on top of Bitcoin. The problems that can happen in these external layers can sort of trickle down to the base layer itself and also issues like MEV.

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