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# Day 12: Hot and not bitcoin technologies
- URL: https://larrysalibra.com/day-12-hot-and-not-bitcoin-tech/
- Published: 2023-08-22T12:00:43.000Z
- Updated: 2023-08-22T12:00:43.000Z
- Description: An informal poll of a Hong Kong ordinals meetup about which bitcoin tech is interesting and which is not.
- Author: Larry Salibra
- Tags: bitcoin, blog, #Import 2024-08-23 13:31

At last Friday's ordinals meet up in Hong Kong, I spent some time asking attendees what Bitcoin tech they were excited about and why. Below is a summary of the responses I got and general sentiment (not necessarily my views - I'm just the messenger):

## Hot

- Ordinals - it was an ordinals meet up, so this was not surprising.
- Lightning - lots of excitment. Seems to be a focus on big names that everyone likes building in Lightning: Elizabeth Stark, Jack Dorsey, David Marcus
- Taproot assets - interest in how taproot assets can complement ordinals and the potential for faster trading via lightning
- Stacks + sBTC - excitement about upcoming 5 second block times and a trustless peg-in/out for BTC will supercharge Bitcoin defi
- Bitcoin L1/L2 names - ordinals meetup attendees were excited about names as a special case of NFTs

## Not

- Rootstock - does this still exist and does anyone use this?
- RGB - Many people saw [the Tether CTO's announcement that USDT will not longer be issued on Bitcoin](https://twitter.com/paoloardoino/status/1692154723875328228?ref=larrysalibra.com) but may be later be issued on RGB in the future. But no one had seen anything working on RGB.
- Drivechain - Everyone had heard of drivechain but everyone seems to write it off because of it requires a bitcoin fork.
- Liquid - everyone had heard of liquid ("oh yeah, that's Blockstream's thing"), but no one had used it.
- Bisq - no one had heard of bisq, which surprised me