Frederico is brilliant. Rgb is alot more than I thought it was
I have been trying to understand RGB protocol (and Prime), but it's really hard to crack what it actually does and if it can deliver what it promises in any reasonable way.
What are your opinions on the technical aspects?
(outside of Dr. Orlovsky not being great in communicating with users and developers, like https://twitter.com/dr_orlovsky/status/1703163182833922168 )
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Thanks! I followed Frederico 😉
The fact that it is a lot of stuff combined is the worrisome part to me. If this can realistically deploy the promises to millions of users, then this is amazing, but to reach the promise multiple things need to click together.
I tried reading the specs, code and watching the presentations. Some of the specs seem outdated, but overall it's a lot of stuff built from scratch (own VM, own data formats, own proving formalisms...), building solution on all layers at the same time (RGB, LN, onchain, Prime...) and in search of more help. My practical worry is that working with RGB will require custom tooling, custom apps, custom training documentation, excited community, etc.
I think it's good to contrast the development with Nostr. Having super simple spec in the beginning lures the developers in and then when it reaches traction, the developers are already familiar, productive with it and grow with the protocol.
I'd be really happy to be proven wrong and I'll have to rely on other folks smarter than me to help digesting it.