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History: started in Bitcoin in 2012 and publishes a white paper a decade ago, then launches production in 2018 and spends seven years iterating. Claims a peer-to-peer monetary system backed by Bitcoin and reuses the EVM as stateful L2 to get DeFi primitives without bootstrapping a new base currency. Architecture is L1 store-of-value, L2 economic coordination, L3 offchain settlement. Offers grants and feedback via the Rootstock collective DAO for developers.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:30Diego’s Bitcoin roots
3. 2:18Crypto in Argentina
4. 3:20Rootstock and Bitcoin’s programmability
5. 5:27Ethereum’s 2014 potential
6. 8:20Rootstock’s white paper
7. 11:11Why Rootstock lasted
8. 14:01Building a crypto ecosystem
9. 15:46Setting crypto standards
10. 16:50Making Bitcoin programmable
11. 18:37Rootstock’s multi-layer model
12. 20:44EVM and protocol evolution
13. 22:10Getting involved with Rootstock

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