Re: [bitcoin-dev] Drivechain: BIP 300 and 301

2021-09-02 Thread Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev
drivechain is a cool proposal. i don't think there's a ton of obvious risk to the network itself (not slow, not too much work for nodes, etc), but it seems to encourage "bad behavior", not sure the incentives line up to prevent thefts, and not sure that won't turn around and bite bitcoin's main c

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Drivechain: BIP 300 and 301

2021-09-02 Thread ZmnSCPxj via bitcoin-dev
Good morning Prayank, Just to be clear, neither Liquid nor RSK, as of my current knowledge, are Drivechain systems. Instead, they are both federated sidechains. The money owned by a federated sidechain is, as far s the Bitcoin blockchain is concerned, really owned by the federation that.runs th

[bitcoin-dev] Drivechain: BIP 300 and 301

2021-09-02 Thread Prayank via bitcoin-dev
printf("Hello, World!"); What are your thoughts on Drivechain and associated BIPs? This article compares Liquid and Lightning:  https://blog.liquid.net/six-differences-between-liquid-and-lightning/. Two things from it that I am interested in while evaluating Drivechain: 1.Trust model 2.On-Ramps

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Proposal for a few IANA mime-types related to Bitcoin

2021-09-02 Thread Dr Maxim Orlovsky via bitcoin-dev
Hi Peter, Yep, I think it is a good idea just to do new BIP and ignore IANA opinion on the matter. I can write it since I was going to propose pretty much the same thing some time ago. I will share the draft in this mail list in a week. Kind regards, Maxim Orlovsky LNP/BP Standards Association

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Braidpool: Proposal for a decentralised mining pool

2021-09-02 Thread Billy Tetrud via bitcoin-dev
How would you compare this to Stratum v2? On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 1:02 AM pool2win via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > We have been working on a peer to peer mining pool that overcomes the > problems faced by P2Pool and enables building a futures market for > hashrat