Re: [bitcoin-dev] Swift Activation - CTV

2024-01-03 Thread Ryan Breen via bitcoin-dev
> On Jan 2, 2024, at 10:50 AM, Michael Folkson via bitcoin-dev > wrote: > > Your knowledge is incorrect. As far as I know in the getting on for 2 years > since the first CTV activation talk/attempt literally no one has built out a > CTV use case and demonstrated it on signet with the possibl

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Future of the bitcoin-dev mailing list

2023-11-07 Thread Ryan Breen via bitcoin-dev
I think GitHub Discussions is a great idea. If we are considering proprietary options like Google Groups, then we should definitely consider Discussions. 1. Guaranteed that nearly everyone participating here already has a GH account. 2. Offers many moderation options. 3. Good formatting abilities

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Ordinals BIP PR

2023-10-24 Thread Ryan Breen via bitcoin-dev
Presumably the people using it feel it is an improvement. However you feel about it, Ordinals and Inscriptions are now a part of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Whether Ordinals deserve a BIP is yet to be determined, but it doesn’t seem appropriate to try and force him to retract it. That solves nothing.

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Sentinel Chains: A Novel Two-Way Peg

2023-08-28 Thread Ryan Breen via bitcoin-dev
I appreciate your questions, ZmnSCPxj. I will answer your second question first: Mainchain nodes do not ever validate sidechain blocks. Sidechain nodes watch Bitcoin for invalid withdrawals, and publish signed attestations to a public broadcast network (such as Nostr) that a transaction is maki

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Sentinel Chains: A Novel Two-Way Peg

2023-08-20 Thread Ryan Breen via bitcoin-dev
x27;s better used for low-bandwidth mainchain nodes instead of for > sidechains): > https://gist.github.com/RubenSomsen/7ecf7f13dc2496aa7eed8815a02f13d1 > > In theory you can also do data availability sampling through the use of > erasure codes, but that gets very complex and brittle

[bitcoin-dev] Sentinel Chains: A Novel Two-Way Peg

2023-08-19 Thread Ryan Breen via bitcoin-dev
Recent discussions on social media regarding drivechains have prompted me to consider the implementation of a two-way sidechain peg within the Bitcoin protocol. I would like to propose what I believe may be a novel solution to this issue. I have previously written about here on my blog: https: