What’s your take about Bitcoin L2s ?

[ByteRoll]

Compareing Ethereum L2 projects, it’s interesting to see Bitcoin also growing to have its L2 projects. Personally, i won’t make conclusions yet until i fully grasp their utility.



Ethereum has Optimism, Arbitrum and Polygon while Bitcoin has Merlin chain, Starks and BSquared network. They have all been good as their focused on advancing Bitcoin’s scalability and utility through Layer-2 solution.



I’m particularly interested in Bitcoin L2s especially BSquared because Ethereum’s L2s are common already but reportedly BSquared is 50x cheaper and 300x faster than the Bitcoin mainnet and it was able to achieve this through off-chain transaction batching and ZK-Rollups. I’m definitely finding out more about BTC L2s but do you think they’ve been getting the job done so far ?

 

[Eli Mercer]

Bitcoin L2s feel like trying to strap a rocket to a horse, it's cool idea, but still figuring out the steering . Lightning’s making moves for payments, and stuff like Stacks is trying to bring smart contracts to BTC, but adoption’s still kinda niche. Promising, but not quite ‘mass adoption’ mode yet

 

[togaru]

Bitcoin L2s feel like trying to strap a rocket to a horse, it's cool idea, but still figuring out the steering . Lightning’s making moves for payments, and stuff like Stacks is trying to bring smart contracts to BTC, but adoption’s still kinda niche. Promising, but not quite ‘mass adoption’ mode yet

I agree, while BTC LN is an actual solid L2, its fast (pretty much instant) and super cheap to make transfers with, it’s still very much lagging in adoption - whereas a lot of platforms tend to accept regular BTC, making payments with LN isn’t accepted.

I would definitely start using it more if adoption picks up, I feel like it’s a matter of time that people will start waking up on it.

 

[Crytononame]

Compareing Ethereum L2 projects, it’s interesting to see Bitcoin also growing to have its L2 projects. Personally, i won’t make conclusions yet until i fully grasp their utility.

It's not really a fair comparison since they serve different purposes.

Bitcoin L2s are focused on one thing: enabling fast and cheap payments. Ethereum L2s are built to be complete ecosystems for DeFi, gaming, and more.

 

[marumaru]

Compareing Ethereum L2 projects, it’s interesting to see Bitcoin also growing to have its L2 projects. Personally, i won’t make conclusions yet until i fully grasp their utility.



Ethereum has Optimism, Arbitrum and Polygon while Bitcoin has Merlin chain, Starks and BSquared network. They have all been good as their focused on advancing Bitcoin’s scalability and utility through Layer-2 solution.



I’m particularly interested in Bitcoin L2s especially BSquared because Ethereum’s L2s are common already but reportedly BSquared is 50x cheaper and 300x faster than the Bitcoin mainnet and it was able to achieve this through off-chain transaction batching and ZK-Rollups. I’m definitely finding out more about BTC L2s but do you think they’ve been getting the job done so far ?

btc L2 is good but seeing how the way they going since last few years seems it not going anywhere
but hope still there. all we can do is wait

instead waiting L2, i rather using eth or just ditch bitcoin.... all i do with bitcoin is just use them for moving money.... no more, no less.