#429: Willem Shroé, CEO of Botanix Labs, on Building a Bitcoin EVM L2, The Future of Bitcoin, and Spiderchain

Willem Schroé is the CEO and Co-Founder of Botanix Labs, the team behind Spiderchain, the on-chain home of Bitcoin Finance. Willem is an engineer and lifelong entrepreneur from Belgium, where he researched authenticated encryption and macroeconomics, and was a national mathematics medalist. He formed the thesis of the Spiderchain whiteboarding in the halls of Spangler while doing his MBA at Harvard, and continues to be a menace to whiteboards across the world with his cryptographic scribbles.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Bitcoin EVM outperforming BitVM
- ZKrollups don't work on Bitcoin
- Bitcoin isn't digital gold; it's digital money
- Using Bitcoin for day-to-day transactions
- Bitcoin finance adoption
- Fully programmable Bitcoin without compromising decentralization
- The importance of unlocking Bitcoin’s $1T+ market cap for on-chain finance
- How Spiderchain differs from other Bitcoin Layer 2s
- Earning yield from your bitcoin without selling
- The importance of decentralization
- The magic of whiteboards

Botanix Labs
Website: botanixlabs.xyz
X: @BotanixLabs
Discord: discord.gg/botanixlabs

Willem Schroé
X: @WillemSchroe
LinkedIn: Willem Schroé

 
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