E156: Boarding the Ark with Alex Bergeron - Ecosystem Lead at Ark Labs

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The time to board the Ark is coming. Ark is a new off-chain scaling solution for Bitcoin that plays nicely with other off-chain protocols like Lightning.

Alex is the Head of Ecosystem at Ark Labs, in this conversation, we discuss:

The current landscape of off-chain protocols
How does Ark work?
What will the UX feel like for users?
Wen live on mainnet?
Alex’s background in Bitcoin
And much more.

Follow Ark Labs on Twitter: @ArkLabsHQ

Learn more about Ark: https://arklabs.to/

Best place to dive deeper:https://arkdev.info/docs/learn/intro

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E156: Boarding the Ark with Alex Bergeron - Ecosystem Lead at Ark Labs

Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown

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The time to board the Ark is coming. Ark is a new off-chain scaling solution for Bitcoin that plays nicely with other off-chain protocols like Lightning.

Alex is the Head of Ecosystem at Ark Labs, in this conversation, we discuss:

The current landscape of off-chain protocols
How does Ark work?
What will the UX feel like for users?
Wen live on mainnet?
Alex’s background in Bitcoin
And much more.

Follow Ark Labs on Twitter: @ArkLabsHQ

Learn more about Ark: https://arklabs.to/

Best place to dive deeper:https://arkdev.info/docs/learn/intro

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