Re: [bitcoin-dev] Coins: A trustless sidechain protocol

2020-01-20 Thread Robin Linus via bitcoin-dev
Goog morning ZmnSCPxj, > Unless of course you propose to have the sidechain issue its own coin, in > which case it is not much more than an altcoin. Okay, call it an altcoin consensus mechanism. Because sidechains do have to issue their own coins. Still, I am not proposing independent

[bitcoin-dev] Payswap

2020-01-20 Thread ZmnSCPxj via bitcoin-dev
Good morning list, [On a recent post on lightning-dev](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2020-January/002431.html), I brought up the possibility of using a circular self-payment to hide the actual direction of payment from third-party snooping nodes. Basically, instead