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Could Solana be a solid Bitcoin L2? Is there value in making it effortless to swap between BTC and Solana assets?
The co-founders of Atomiq think so and have created an excellent product to eaisly swap between these assets with minimal risk.
Sylvie Durach and Adam Borcany of the co-founders of Atomiq. An atomic swap protocol that let's you swap assets from different chains with a dead simple interface.

Check out Atomiq: https://app.atomiq.exchange/
Follow Sylvie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sylvie0301
Follow Adam on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AdamBorco

In this Bitcoin Weekly Kickback. Jake, Charlie, Donny, and Bob are joined by Matt Luongo to delve into:
- The role of nodes versus miners in controlling Bitcoin.
- The importance of fee revenue and NgU for different network users.
- Designing Layer 2 incentives that align with Layer 1 priorities.
- The Game Theory of UNCOMMON GOODS (The first Rune)

Follow these cats on Twitter: @itsdonnyok, @bobbodily, @cbspears, @jakeblockchain, @mhluongo

Ordinals have been huge for Bitcoin since launching early 2023. There is $100's of millions in value locked in these digital artifacts.
Liquidium allows users to borrow BTC using their Ordinal as collateral and lenders can earn a BTC yield lending to borrowers.

Robin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Liquidium.

Follow Robin on Twitter: @robin_liquidium
Take a loan on Liquidium: https://www.liquidium.fi/

Another weekly chat of the latest in Bitcoin land. We have two special guests drop in this week. Philip from Arkadiko and Ian from Joltz Rewards, as well as the usual suspects Bob and Jacob.

We Discuss:
- Marathon Pools latest fee revenue coming way above average
- Lighting + Coinbase
- Custodial Lightning
- Is DeFi a worthwhile goal?
- Is BitVM safe?

Follow these gents on Twitter:
@BobBodily, @ian__major, @philiphacks and @jakeblockchain.

Fungible tokens and digital collectibles are hot topics on Bitcoin. This year we saw BRC20's and Ordinals take off. Now in 2024, there are two new standards being launched that aim to replace many of the shortcomings of these previous attempts. Linden Stark breaks down Taproot Assets and compares the similarities and differences between this protocol and Runes.

Linden Stark is the CTO at Joltz Rewards. A Lightning-powered rewards provider and non-custodial Taproot Assets wallet.

Follow Linden on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xLinden
Check out Joltz Rewards: https://joltzrewards.com/

In this chat we discuss:
- The growing problem of mempool sniping and what to do.
- MEV on Bitcoin
- Private Mempools
- Game of Blocks

A relaxed and wide ranging chat with Charlie Spears, Bob Bodily, Donny and Jacob Brown.