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Alex Bosworth: Early BTC and LN business innovation is missing today

Alex Bosworth: Early BTC and LN business innovation is missing today
Fewer indie BTC businesses today

Alex Bosworth, head of infrastructure at Lightning Labs, reminisces about the earlier days of BTC and Layer-2 Lightning Network (LN) when there was more focus on building new BTC businesses beyond transaction solutions and exchanges.

He observes that while products like point-of-sale systems from Square exist, they remain clunky and there is a desire to see more indie businesses in the BTC ecosystem.

Bosworth has previously discussed BTC protocol security, warning that making network response strategies predictable can increase vulnerability to attacks in the BTC protocol. He has also noted the growing importance of off-chain transactions for privacy as AI tools become more effective at analyzing blockchain data, according to his comments on AI and on-chain noise. These perspectives inform his ongoing focus on infrastructure and business development in the BTC ecosystem.

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