#400: Edan Yago, Core Contributor of BitcoinOS, on Bitcoin-Based DeFi, ZK-Proofs, BitSNARK, and The Future of Bitcoin

Edan Yago is a Core Contributor of BitcoinOS. He is also an early core contributor to Sovryn, a decentralised Layer 2 Bitcoin trading, lending, and asset management platform. Earlier in his career, Yago founded several other companies in the Bitcoin and crypto space, including CementDAO and Epiphyte, which provided global remittance services.

As an anti-finance financier and radical optimist, Yago is a passionate advocate for the mass adoption of open, borderless, and incorruptible finance. He believes in both Bitcoin's reliable permanence and crypto's decentralized innovation. As such, he’s made it his mission to marry the best of both worlds, bringing unity back to the blockchain universe.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- What is Bitcoin DeFi?
- Bitcoin DeFi challenges
- What’s next for Bitcoin DeFi
- Micheal Saylor buying up all the bitcoin
- Functional escape velocity
- The future of Bitcoin
- BitVM and BitSNARK
- Practical use cases of Bitcoin-based DeFi
- Role of smart contracts in BitcoinOS
- Why are we still in the degenerate crypto era?
- What is a Bitcoin L2?

BitcoinOS
Website: www.bitcoinos.build
X: @BTC_OS
Discord: discord.gg/bitcoinos

Edan Yago
X: @EdanYago

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