Fractal, Babylon Mainnet, East vs West markets, Ordinal Devs - Bitcoin Weekly Kickback with Charlie, Donny, Bob and Jacob

On this latest Bitcoin Weekly we discuss the Babylon Mainnet launch, Fractal Bitcoin Sidechain, The state of discourse on Bitcoin Twitter, East vs West and how they invest differently, Proof-of-Work being zero sum, the effects of the Ordinals numbering debate on devs, and much more.




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Sound Bites

"People have been craving the pod. I'm gonna waste no time. Let's just jump right in."

"The general idea of development and pushing forward on Bitcoin is thrilling."

"The number of developers who are competent in the ordinals and ordinals adjacent type dev activities are limited."

"Fractal would be a pretty good testnet... It sounds like a terrible idea."

"Either ETH wins or Bitcoin wins, but one has to slowly die or they're both easily more attackable."

"BitVM2 is good enough for a specific bridging use case... LPs can come in and make it possible."