Xiao Zhou is a novice who has just started exploring cryptocurrency. Recently, he bought some Bitcoin and wanted to try some small transactions on the blockchain. However, the transaction fees alone cost him more than ten yuan, which was even more than the amount he transferred. He waited almost two hours for the transaction to be confirmed. "This is just too unfriendly," he complained to a friend, "newbies are blocked by the threshold when trying to get started."

Later, after a friend's recommendation, he used Bitlayer and finally tasted the benefits. Yesterday, he tried to transfer a small amount of Bitcoin to a friend in another location. After clicking send, his phone refreshed and showed the amount had arrived almost instantly, and the fee was only a bit over fifty cents. "This speed and cost are just like sending a red envelope, perfect for us newbies to practice with."

What surprised him even more was that those so-called complex on-chain applications were not so difficult to use after all. For example, he wanted to try minting a small NFT avatar. He had always heard that Bitcoin did not support such contracts, but now on Bitlayer, he could operate directly with Bitcoin. The steps were so simple, almost like uploading a picture, and he completed his first NFT in just a few minutes.

This is actually the trick of Bitlayer: it hasn't changed the security foundation of Bitcoin, but it has added a "lightweight mode"—making small transactions and operations for newbies fast and cheap, and enabling features that were previously unavailable with Bitcoin. For newbies like Xiao Zhou, there’s no need to understand concepts like "Layer 2 scaling" or "contract migration"; they just need to know that "using Bitcoin is more convenient now, costs are lower, and there are more things to explore." #Bitlayer

Now he tells everyone: "I used to think Bitcoin was far from ordinary people, with high fees and complicated operations; now with Bitlayer, I realize it can be as simple as everyday payment software. This is what encourages more people to engage with cryptocurrency." @BitlayerLabs