Main takeaways from the 2 hour interview we just did with @rodarmor about Runes:
▣ The government, Ethereum, and BRC-20 all suck
▣ Still deciding if he will hardcode Runes 1-9
▣ UNCOMMON•GOODS is the ticker for Rune 0 which is a non-utility memecoin that "you should not buy"
▣ Runes is an "interdimensional casino"
▣ Likes the BRC-20 free mint mechanism that prevented a presale culture and Runes will borrow this mechanism
▣ Pre-runes projects promising a low rune number are selling a "tall tell"
▣ Revealed his idea for a Runes "gossip" network for decentralized trading
▣ Optimistic about a Bitcoin upgrade that will allow for trustless bridging of Runes to L2s "In a year or so we'll probably see OP_CAT on Bitcoin"
▣ Not worried about MEV for block 840,000 and thinks miners are not that sophisticated yet
▣ Committed to the immutability of rune numbers and said it would be "very bad" if there was a bug in his code that resulted in "cursed runes"
▣ Believes that Runes spamming the network isn't a problem because BTC is too volatile to be a good currency today