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 event.
This is impossible to guarantee. Federated sidechains are already possible with simple multisig (and they could very well be merge-mined chains instead of simply signed). At the same time, the value of permissionless sidechain innovation is potentially huge. Luke _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
