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Alpha Leak | The Bull Case for zkBTC

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ZK Style Fully Private Transactions on Bitcoin?

The scalability of the system actually decreases. So you can't make as many zcash style transactions using a ZK roll up on Bitcoin as the main that Bitcoin layer can do regular transaction itself. Even with the most efficient proofs that we have today, it ends up being about 20% bigger than a normal one input to output Bitcoin layer one transaction. But yeah, I think it's worth the additional 20, 25% size to get that strong level of privacy. It's up to each user to decide really.

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