Orestis Alpos

@OrestisAlpos

Technical Architect at Bitcoin Scaling Labs | Consultant for Common Prefix | Blockchain scientist and researcher. PhD from University of Bern.

Berne, Switzerland Joined June 2015

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Orestis Alpos @OrestisAlpos Aug 18

AI clients will very soon need to make payments on behalf of their users, and this must done in a secure and efficient manner.

Watch our demo on how Bitcoin-IPC can make BTC available to Claude users.

Bitcoin Scaling Labs Verified account @BTCScalingLabs Aug 17

AI agents can now make BTC payments using Bitcoin-IPC!

Watch below Claude make intra-subnet and cross-subnet payments in BTC when prompted by user. We also demonstrate funding subnet wallets from Bitcoin L1 address.

In this demo, Bitcoin-IPC subnets were anchored to Bitcoin regtest.

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Orestis Alpos @OrestisAlpos Jul 1

300+ Bitcoin L2s, zero shared way to prove state among them.

Every transfer needs a bridge committee, and that committee becomes your trust root.

Adding signers hardens it, but doesn't remove it. New post from BSL on why interop needs a new primitive: bitcoinscalinglabs.com/blog/why-300-b…

Orestis Alpos @OrestisAlpos Apr 15

New feature of Bitcoin-IPC is out!
ERC20 tokens deployed on one subnet are automatically available in all subnets, and they can be bridged without any external committee.
See in the demo how a stablecoin deployed in a Bitcoin-IPC subnet can be used in all Bitcoin-IPC subnets!

Bitcoin Scaling Labs Verified account @BTCScalingLabs Apr 14

Beyond bridging wBTC through Bitcoin L1, Bitcoin-IPC allows for seamless deployment of stablecoins and other ERC20 tokens. In the video below, we show how Bitcoin-IPC subnet operators can issue a stablecoin (as well as other custom ERC20 tokens). We also show how bridging and accounting of such tokens works seamlessly through Bitcoin L1 using Bitcoin-IPC protocol. The video contains a conceptual overview and testnet/regtest demo including cross-subnet bridging.

youtu.be/8rMrf4TYfCY
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Orestis Alpos @OrestisAlpos Mar 17

The design for Bitcoin-IPC tokenomics is out! Learn all about it on this video.

Bitcoin Scaling Labs Verified account @BTCScalingLabs Mar 17

We are excited to present a working Bitcoin-IPC tokenomics MVP!
youtube.com/watch?v=UngzD2…

Main principles are straightforward:

1) Bitcoin-IPC will reward staking BTC to any subnet, as well as cross-subnet users. Reward token is deflationary, and denoted as IPC-BTC in the presentation/demo.
2) This implies Bitcoin-IPC adopters/validators can earn IPC-BTC while staking L1 BTC in a self-custodial way.
3) We envision 42M IPC-BTC, with halving schedules mimicking that of BTC.
4) We envision fair launch, with no premine (reserved IPC-BTC for the team, investors, etc.), with a nod to Satoshi's principles, respecting Bitcoin ethos.
5) In the beginning as well as in this demo, IPC-BTC is issued on a specific Bitcoin-IPC subnet called the Emission Subnet, yet (again) available to stakers and users of any Bitcoin-IPC subnet

Enjoy the demo, comment, discuss and follow us.
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Orestis Alpos @OrestisAlpos Feb 20

Software development with agentic support is really fun! Within hours I created a DSL and I can write test scenaria in a super simple format, which is then parsed into operations across a whole software stack. Couple of years back and this would take a small team to build.