What is this subreddit's opinion of Ark?
Hey everyone, a Bitcoiner from the other side of the fork here.
Before anything let me start by saying that I'm not a dogmatic one but I also don't believe that Bitcoin was hijacked, so please don't try to convince me it was (I will ignore anything you have top say if you do so since it adds nothing to the conversation), I'm pretty much open minded and believe that while BCH has a lot better technology, BTC has the correct mems for the market to adopt it and try to scale it even in hacky ways if needed, hence I believe that Ark might be a great solution to BTC's scaling issues.
The simplest way to explain it would be as a rollup that uses Bitcoin's native structures like taptrees to batch off-chain transactions into an on-chain one without having to trust the service provider once the transactions are settled, right now it needs some level of interactivity but with Covenants it could be made completely non-interactive, you can read more about Ark here: https://second.tech/
My experience with the BCH community has been that of a community that's mostly highly technical and that they actually understand how Bitcoin works (hence why I'm asking what you guys thing of Ark) but that don't accept that the market has gone in favor of BTC instead of BCH hence they follow the conspiracy that it was captured, I can't blame you, if I lost a war to the most retarded people on the internet I would also believe that my favourite open source project was captured by a government agency or something.
As additional proof that I've come to debate in good faith, here's my participation on the BItcoin Cash Podcast which was a really nice experience for me, I'm really open to discussion here since I really like ARK and Lightning but I understand why most people here think Lightning is a failure.
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