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Zack Voell is the Director of Marketing and Communications at Botanix Labs and Willem Schroe is Co-Founder and CEO at Botanix Labs and the Inventor of the Spiderchain. In this interview, we discuss how and why Botanix are bringing an Ethereum Virtual Machine to Bitcoin, the culture clash and building on Bitcoin.

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Mentioned in the interview:

• Spiderchains: A Proof Of Stake Second Layer | Bitcoin Magazine

• Liquid | Blockstream

• BitVM.org

• Federated Sidechains are Bitcoin’s Original Upgradeable Sidechain Implementation 

• An Overview Of The Tradeoffs For Different Sidechain Implementations 

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