- #Bitcoin is actually quite useless when you think about it: 🥷🏿✝️ ✍🏻 It is not programmable, so all you can do is hold or send ✍🏻 It is slow and expensive for anything beyond transfers ✍🏻 The ecosystem is fragmented, forcing users to jump between platforms ✍🏻 Institutions can’t deploy $BTC liquidity safely without bridging into other chains 🟣 To solve the programmability problem, Stacks built Clarity smart contracts, but that meant learning a new language and dealing with a slow, unfamiliar ecosystem. @Rootstock_io, on the other hand, runs a full Ethereum Virtual Machine on Bitcoin, fully merge-mined, so devs can use Solidity and all Ethereum tools. As a result, users can now trade, lend, borrow, mint #stablecoins, and run automated strategies using actual Bitcoin. ✔️ As for speed and fees, Lightning provided instant transfers and low costs, but it only handles predefined channels and simple transfers. Rootstock uses rBTC pegged to Bitcoin inside an EVM, which makes transactions fast, predictable, and practical for running smart contracts and DeFi strategies. ✔️ How about fragmentation? Before, you had to move between Lightning, Stacks, Liquid, and others, depending on what you wanted to do. Rootstock brings all of it into one ecosystem. Payments, trading, lending, yield farming, stablecoins, margin, everything exists on the same chain secured by Bitcoin miners. ✔️ With everything now on one chain and Bitcoin-native, funds and custodians can deploy $BTC safely, without needing to touch Ethereum or Solana. -------- Personally, I’ve been using Sovryn (Uniswap/Aave for Bitcoin), for trading, lending, borrowing, and leverage. There's also @moneyonchainok, which mints BTC-backed stablecoins, and many other (over 100) interesting products. Highly recommend every BTC maxi to check this one out. A complete, functional ecosystem for all your $BTC needs.