Replying to myself: IIUC, Powswap seems to only create contracts from current time to future time.
But, you can create synthetic hashrate binaries for time span in the future time A to time B, using powswap, by subtracting (current time to B) - (current time to A) IE, buy first, sell second. On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 4:07 PM Thomas Hartman <thomashartm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This is in reply to David harding’s message at > > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2020-August/018129.html > > (For some reason didn’t arrive in my inbox, so I was late noticing it, and I > am replying in this way. Sorry if it screws up threading.) > > Powswap sounds great! And it doesn’t require any protocol changes! Very cool. > > One potential problem I see with powswap is iiuc you need something like > watchtowers, or the loser of the bet can sweep the funds if the winner is > napping. Related, I’d also like to have trades happening in lightning > channels, and I’m not sure how this race affects the security assumptions > there. > > Further question about powswap. > > It’s currently block 64632 with retarget in 808 blocks. I’d like to bet that > > * the first 6 blocks after the retarget are found in under an hour > * AND the new difficulty exceeds some threshold. Is such a bet currently > possible with powswap? > > I see how pow swap lets you bet on hashrate (ie block times) from current > time till some future time. But I would like to also bet on hashrate of > slices of time in the future. Possible? > > _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
