
About this episode
Bitcoin has won the store-of-value argument, but can it become the foundation of an entirely new credit system? David Seroy of Alpen Labs joins David Hoffman to explore why Bitcoin’s next era may be defined by digital credit, ZK rollups, fixed-duration lending, and an onchain repo market rather than payments alone.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Hyperbitcoinization
3:51 Bitcoin’s Next Phase
9:57 The Talent Crisis
11:29 BitVM and ZK
16:26 Bitcoin L2s
19:06 Bitcoin Credit
28:28 Onchain Repo
34:09 The Yield Curve
38:21 Borrowing and Risk
43:24 Why L2s Failed
48:29 Saylor vs Onchain
54:51 Alpen and Strata
56:36 Ethereum’s Purpose
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RESOURCES
Alpen Labs
https://www.alpenlabs.io/
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