[bitcoin-dev] Take 2: Removing the Dust Limit

Bitcoin Devs (+cc lightning-dev), Earlier this year I proposed allowing 0 value outputs and that was shot down for various reasons, see https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2021-August/019307.html I think that there can be a simple carve out now that package relay is being

Re: [bitcoin-dev] [Bitcoin Advent Calendar] What's Smart about Smart Contracts

-- @JeremyRubin Hi! On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 4:33 PM ZmnSCPxj wrote: > Good morning Jeremy, > > > > > Here's the day 6 post: https://rubin.io/bitcoin/2021/12/03/advent-6/, > the topic is why smart contracts (in extended form)

[bitcoin-dev] [Bitcoin Advent Calendar] Contract Primitives and Upgrades to Bitcoin

This post is a mini high level SoK covering basic details of a number of different new proposed primitives that folks might find useful -- I think there's less to discuss around this post, since it is at a higher level and the parts contained here could be discussed separately. If something isn't

Re: [bitcoin-dev] [Bitcoin Advent Calendar] What's Smart about Smart Contracts

Good morning Jeremy, > > Here's the day 6 post: https://rubin.io/bitcoin/2021/12/03/advent-6/, the > topic is why smart contracts (in extended form) may be a critical precursor > to securing Bitcoin's future rather than something we should do after making > the base layer more robust. *This*

[bitcoin-dev] [Bitcoin Advent Calendar] Vaults

Last one for today -- sorry for the overload, I had meant to post as the series kicked off... This post covers building various vaults/better cold storage using sapio https://rubin.io/bitcoin/2021/12/07/advent-10/. In an earlier post I motivated why self-custody is so critical (see

[bitcoin-dev] [Bitcoin Advent Calendar] Sapio Primer

This post covers a basic intro to Sapio and links to more complete docs. https://rubin.io/bitcoin/2021/12/06/advent-9/ I've previously shared Sapio on this list, and there's been a lot of progress since then! I think Sapio is a fantastic system to express Bitcoin ideas in, even if you don't want

[bitcoin-dev] [Bitcoin Advent Calendar] Review of Smart Contract Concepts

This post covers some high-level smart contract concepts that different opcodes or proposals could have (or not). https://rubin.io/bitcoin/2021/12/04/advent-7/ Interested to hear about other properties that you think are relevant! Best, Jeremy -- @JeremyRubin

[bitcoin-dev] [Bitcoin Advent Calendar] What's Smart about Smart Contracts

Hi! Over the next month I'm doing a one-a-day blog post series till Christmas, and I think some of the posts might be appropriate for discussion here. Unfortunately I forgot to start the calendar series syndicated here too... The first few posts are less bitcoin development related and

Re: [bitcoin-dev] A fee-bumping model

Hi Darosior and Ariard, Thank you for your work looking into fee-bumping so thoroughly, and for sharing your results. I agree about fee-bumping's importance in contract security and feel that it's often under-prioritized. In general, what you've described in this post, to me, is strong motivation