Something not discussed often enough is that incentives to execute a 51% attack goes up substantially with bridging "honeypots" created by Layer 2s. According to @RootstockLabs creator and @FairGateLabs CTO @SDLerner, this was likely a reason early discussions of upgrading Bitcoin to faciliate trustless bridges (eg via the canonical sidechains paper by @adam3us and others) were not pursued over a decade. To be fair, miner centralization was a much greater risk at that time—but remains a risk today, especially as the Bitcoin block subsidy declines. Full episode in the comments 👇