On Sunday 03 December 2017 9:32:15 PM Matt Corallo wrote:
> Given the lack of convincing evidence of that "Risk of centralisation of
> mining" drawback in section 4.3 of the sidechains paper has been
> meaningfully addressed, I'd say its pretty important that new sidechains be
> an incredibly rare
I think you are missing a few things.
First of all, I think the security model for sidechains is the same as
that of every blockchain
People will say things, like "but with sidechains 51% hashrate can steal
your coins!", but as I have repeated many times, this is also true of
mainchain btc-tx. i
Hi Matt,
Thanks for very much for your thoughtful review
Comments below.
On 12/3/2017 4:32 PM, Matt Corallo wrote:
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> At a high level, I'm rather dissapointed by the amount of data that is
> going into the main chain here. Things such as a human readable nam
To follow up on the remarkable work Greg announced from Benedikt Bünz (Stanford)
and Jonathan Bootle (UCL) on Bulletproofs: https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1066
Summary
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Over the last couple weeks, along with Jonas Nick, Pieter Wuille, Greg Maxwell
and Peter Dettmann, I've implemented the s
