Good morning all,
A thing I just realized about Braidpool is that the payout server is still a
single central point-of-failure.
Although the paper claims to use Tor hidden service to protect against DDoS
attacks, its centrality still cannot protect against sheer accident.
What happens if some c
If you make the to be reorged flag 2 bits, 1 bit can mark final block and
the other can mark to be reorged.
That way the nodes opting into reorg can see the reorg and ignore the final
blocks (until a certain time? Or until it's via a reorg?), and the nodes
wanting not to see reorgs get continuous
Hello,
tl;dr: We want to make reorgs on SigNet a reality and are looking for
feedback on approach and parameters.
One of the ideas for SigNet is the possibility for it to be reliably
unreliable, for example, planned chain reorganizations. These have not
been implemented yet.
My summerofbitcoin.o
With a new BIP editor (Kalle Alm) in place and Taproot activation
locked in it is probably/possibly as good time as any to revisit the
BIP process and see if we can bolster it, improve it or at least
inform why certain things operate the way they do.
Hence two IRC meetings are being organized, one
Good morning Prayank,
> Thanks for sharing all the details. One thing that I am not sure about:
>
> > * We already ***know*** that blockchains cannot scale
> > * Your plan for scaling is to make ***more*** blockchains?
>
> Scaling Bitcoin can be different from scaling Bitcoin sidechains. You can
