The Challenges of Bootstrapping an Ecosystem Around a Programming Language

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The upgrade is scheduled to go live with what people are calling this knock on water release, which is a big upgrade to the stacks on to. The challenges of bootstrapping that ecosystem around a certain programming language have been talked about by stack's CEO and co-founder Mike Kucharski. "If you're not even compatible, it doesn't matter which language it is," he says.

Muneeb Ali joins us to discuss how Stacks is bringing DeFi to Bitcoin. We cover Stacks design, the Bitcoin DeFi thesis, L2 security guarantees, Stacks' recent implementation bug and more!

And as usual, we start the episode with our analyst bullpen to discuss Aave's GHO, TradFi announcements, Optimism's Bedrock, Frax governance shenanigans and BitDAO.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(00:55) Hot Seat/Cool Throne

(27:19) Interview Start: Stacks

(42:22) The Proof-of-Transfer Mechanism

(46:55) The Nakamoto Release: A Security Budget Upgrade

(53:21) The Bitcoin DeFi Thesis

(57:49) Bitcoin Subnets

(1:01:10) The “Stack Increase” Bug

(1:17:15) Bitcoin MEV and Censorship

(1:25:03) Increasing Miner Competition

(1:28:37) Reorg Concerns and Orphan Blocks

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Resources:

Stacks

https://www.stacks.co/

Stacks Roadblocks (Blockworks Research Twitter thread)

https://twitter.com/blockworksres/status/1659228801384194049

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