Arbitrum co-founder skeptical of move to based and native rollups: Steven Goldfeder

Arbitrum co-founder Steven Goldfeder has ruled out the L2 becoming a based rollup and was circumspect about becoming a native rollup too.

Offchain Labs CEO Steven Goldfeders crypto origin story is classic geek gold. As a student at Princeton, he first heard about Bitcoin in 2013 during a visit day at Princeton.

Professor Ed Felten the future inventor of rollups on Ethereum, co-founder of Arbitrum and a White House science advisor gave a five-minute lightning talk about the cost of a government destroying Bitcoin. 

Goldfeders curiosity was instantly piqued, and that night, other students hosted a poker game with a half-BTC buy-in. As he says:

That was back in the days when that was just ten bucks. If only Id held onto it…

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