Re: [bitcoin-dev] Opinion on proof of stake in future

2021-05-21 Thread vizeet srivastava via bitcoin-dev
It is difficult to understand how energy usage is a bad thing. At one end we talk about energy usage as a bad thing and we also talk about global warming. If Earth is receiving extra energy which is causing global warming shouldn't we use extra energy to do something useful. On Fri, May 21, 2021

Re: [bitcoin-dev] SLIP-0039: Shamir's Secret-Sharing for Mnemonic Codes

2018-09-21 Thread vizeet srivastava via bitcoin-dev
I see one benefit which i am looking for. I may not need to use all public keys in p2sh script instead i can use p2pkh and retrieve funds by using threshold number of keys..so in case i loose a public key along with private key i still may have other public key private key pairs to retrieve. For me

Re: [bitcoin-dev] A BIP proposal for transactions that are 'cancellable'

2018-09-06 Thread vizeet srivastava via bitcoin-dev
I feel it is breaking a principle that if a transaction is valid it remains valid. There might be dangerous repercussions to breaking that rule. For instance chain of transaction become invalid which might lead to losses. On Thu 6 Sep, 2018, 6:37 PM Alejandro Ranchal Pedrosa via bitcoin-dev, < bit