On Wednesday 28 June 2017 12:37:13 AM Chris Stewart via bitcoin-dev wrote: > BRIBEVERIFY redefines the existing NOP4 opcode. When executed, if the given > critical hash is included at the given vout index in the coinbase > transaction > the script evaluates to true. Otherwise, the script will fail. > > This allows sidechains to be merged mined against > bitcoin without burdening bitcoin miners with extra resource requirements.
I don't see how. It seems like the logical outcome from this is "whoever pays the most gets the next sidechain block"... That's not particularly useful for merge mining. > This enables sidechains in Bitcoin. There are different kinds of sidechains... Federated peg: this already works on Bitcoin. SPV/SNARK peg: this isn't enabled by your BIP. Drivechains: this isn't enabled by your BIP. How do you say this enables any kind of sidechain? > A new block rule is added which requires that the miner's coinbase reward > be at index 0 in the coinbase transaction's output vector. > > It also fixes the witness commitment output to be at index 1 of the > coinbase transaction's output vector. This is unacceptable, for reasons Greg already pointed out. > This document is placed in the public domain. Note that this is not acceptable for BIPs anymore. https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0002.mediawiki#BIP_licensing _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
