The blockchain trilemma

A blockchain can only achieve two of the three things; decentralization, scalability or security, at a time.

Bitcoin opted for decentralization and security.

Keep that in mind before supporting any crap in the base layer, tradeoffs are inevitable.

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And scalability Bitcoin achieves via lightning, right?

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Agreed. I'm not sold on Drivechain. At all.

Let sidechains do their thing. We don't need shitcoins intertwined with L1.