Good morning Ryan, et al.,
My long-ago interest in sidechains was the hope that they would be a scaling
solution.
However, at some point I thought "the problem is that blockchains cannot scale,
sidechains means MORE blockchains that cannot scale, what was I thinking???"
This is why I turned my
Good morning Ryan,
> 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 a
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
Good morning Ryan,
If I modify your Sentinel Chain open-source software so that it is honest for
999 sidechain blocks, then lies and says that the 1000th block is invalid even
though it actually is, what happens?
Do mainchain nodes need to download the previous 999 sidechain blocks, run the
si
Hi Ryan,
>As I envision it, there is no cryptographic proof involved at all.
That seems to directly contradict your previous message where you stated
"[t]hey transmit invalid transactions or blocks". This transmission you
alluded to is basically a (non-optimized) fraud proof, and it assumes that
Thank you for the feedback, Ruben. I have a question.
Could you please clarify what qualifies as a fraud proof in this concept? As I
envision it, there is no cryptographic proof involved at all.
In the context of a Sentinel chain, the sidechain's full nodes monitor Bitcoin
mempools and blocks f
Hi Ryan,
Thanks for taking the time to write a proposal. As is often the case, these
ideas aren't actually as novel as you might think. What you describe here
is known as "fraud proofs". The crucial problem it doesn't address is "data
availability".
The general idea behind fraud proofs is that if
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:
