Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2022-11-02 Thread Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev
> > (the only way to replace a transaction is Replace-By-Fee but this > implies the transaction that IS TO BE REPLACED has a certain flag set, > and it is optional). > 1. full rbf is becoming standard. tx without full rbf can just be rejected as a part of the sabu protocol 2. that's fine.

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-08-09 Thread raymo via bitcoin-dev
Hi Chris, Thanks for your detailed answer. So, as you answered there is an uncertainty about this case. For me, even this uncertainty would be a good point to start. Because if the miners realize the potentiality for increasing revenue under Sabu protocol, very soon they will want to update their

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-08-09 Thread raymo via bitcoin-dev
Hi s7r, I already answered to ZmnSCPxj's comments. Let’s go to yours. > If it is a child transaction of the Main Transaction Sorry for my shortcoming in English, because it caused the misunderstanding of proposal. There is not any relation between Main Transaction and Guarantee transaction. when

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-08-08 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
raymo via bitcoin-dev wrote: TL,DR: you were explained by ZmnSCPxj why this protocol will not work. The possibility for just one party to sign will not work. I will explain again why but in much more simpler description. Check out this simple transaction to learn more about how the system

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-08-08 Thread raymo via bitcoin-dev
Fine tuning Sabu in order to minimize the protocol risks After representing Sabu protocol here (https://raymo-49157.medium.com/time-to-boost-bitcoin-circulation-million-transactions-per-second-and-privacy-1eef8568d180) and answer some comments and critics here

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-07-17 Thread Tao Effect via bitcoin-dev
Hi Raymo, I personally am excited about what you’re working on, and wish you the best of luck with it! Cheers, Greg > On Jul 17, 2021, at 8:50 AM, raymo via bitcoin-dev > wrote: > > After introducing Sabu protocol as a solution for Bitcoin scaling >

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-07-17 Thread raymo via bitcoin-dev
After introducing Sabu protocol as a solution for Bitcoin scaling (https://raymo-49157.medium.com/time-to-boost-bitcoin-circulation-million-transactions-per-second-and-privacy-1eef8568d180), I shared this idea with Bitcoin developers through the bitcoin-dev mailing list. I got some constructive

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-07-07 Thread Billy Tetrud via bitcoin-dev
> As far as I know the “claw back” mechanism doesn’t exist in Bitcoin system, and probably most Bitcoiners won’t be agree on it. It certainly doesn't. And it would definitely be a hard sell. > It looks the miners still can abuse Sabu, but as I told before the miner or better say the mining pool

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-07-03 Thread raymo via bitcoin-dev
Hi Billy, > What if it was possible for the creditor to claw back the funds As far as I know the “claw back” mechanism doesn’t exist in Bitcoin system, and probably most Bitcoiners won’t be agree on it. Even if we want to add claw back to Bitcoin in general, and Sabu in particular, it would add

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-07-02 Thread Billy Tetrud via bitcoin-dev
Thanks for the details Raymo. A thought occurred to me. Given the fact that miners can abuse this system without penalty, it would be useful to be able to fix this. What if it was possible for the creditor to claw back the funds even if the cheating transaction was mined instead of the guarantee

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-07-01 Thread raymo via bitcoin-dev
Hi Erik Please correct me if I misunderstood. > email is fully compromised. What I got is: Email is not good because the sender and receiver are compromised. Email is not good because the message content is revealed. I can claim same argue about any other client/server model. Since the server

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-07-01 Thread Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev
your protocol should always assume the email system is fully compromised, and only send public information over email: - public keys / addresses are sent - other routing data encrypted with public keys (not sure how data is routed in sabu) your end user should be able to verify public keys /

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-07-01 Thread raymo via bitcoin-dev
Hi Billy, Sorry for late reply. Let’s jump in proposal. > Some more information about the benefits of this approach vs alternatives > (mainly lightning) The most important different is unlike the lightning, in Sabu no one have to open a channel and pay Bitcoin transaction fee, subsequently no

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-30 Thread raymo via bitcoin-dev
Dear ZmnSCPxj Thanks for dedicating time to read carefully the Sabu proposal and many thanks for your accurate point. So, lets fix it. I didn’t suppose Alice has only one UTXO, instead I expect every issuer use hundreds or even millions UTXOs (for optimal benefit each worth exactly 40,000

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-29 Thread ZmnSCPxj via bitcoin-dev
Good morning Raymo, > Hey Alex, > > Your scenario works perfectly unless we put some restrictions on > accepting transaction by creditor (in our case Bob). > These are restrictions: > Alice has to use a UTXO (or some UTXOs) worth at least 40,000 Sat as > transaction input. > Alice has to reserve

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-28 Thread raymo via bitcoin-dev
Hey Alex, Your scenario works perfectly unless we put some restrictions on accepting transaction by creditor (in our case Bob). These are restrictions: Alice has to use a UTXO (or some UTXOs) worth at least 40,000 Sat as transaction input. Alice has to reserve 10,000 Sat as transaction fee (for

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-28 Thread Alex Schoof via bitcoin-dev
Hey Raymo, Here’s a scenario: Alice has one UTXO. Suppose Alice sends Bob an MT and a GT over Sabu, and Bob gives whatever goods and services to Alice. Alice then goes and spends that UTXO to Charlie with a higher fee than the GT she sent to Bob. Charlie has no idea that Bob exists, because he

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-28 Thread Ricardo Filipe via bitcoin-dev
I believe Zman meant issuer. raymo via bitcoin-dev escreveu no dia segunda, 28/06/2021 à(s) 18:45: > > Hi Greg, > You are right, the whole scenario is: > there is an issuer which own a UTXO > issuers get fiat money or goods or services from creditor in exchange of > a transaction. > the

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-28 Thread raymo via bitcoin-dev
Hi Greg, You are right, the whole scenario is: there is an issuer which own a UTXO issuers get fiat money or goods or services from creditor in exchange of a transaction. the transactions are intended to circulate in Sabu protocol instead of sending to Bitcoin network. creditor can not sign the

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-28 Thread raymo via bitcoin-dev
> What prevents the creditor from signing a transaction that is neither a valid > MT nor a GT? Please stop comparing Sabu and Lightning. Otherwise, it won't let you true understanding of Sabu. In Sabu protocol, only the issuer (the UTXO owner) can sign the transaction and decide how much money

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-28 Thread raymo via bitcoin-dev
Hi James, > There's only one practical approach I'm aware of for miners to actually > do this, and that would be to effectively make mining centralized. > So I would highly discourage this sort of policy when it comes to mining. I do not know about the approach you talking about it, but my

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-28 Thread ZmnSCPxj via bitcoin-dev
Good morning Raymo, > Hi ZmnSCPxj, > > Why you get the signal “trust the Gazin wallet”? > Sabu is a protocol and the Gazin wallet will be an implementation of > that protocol. We will implement it in react-native language to support > both Android and iPhone. Of course it will be open source and

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-28 Thread James Hilliard via bitcoin-dev
On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 3:52 AM wrote: > > > Hi James, > Sorry for not responding in detail. > So, lets jump in the critiques. > > > You're making the assumption that miners won't build on top of a block > with transactions they have not seen before or transactions that may > contain double

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-28 Thread raymo via bitcoin-dev
Hi James, Sorry for not responding in detail. So, lets jump in the critiques. > You're making the assumption that miners won't build on top of a block with transactions they have not seen before or transactions that may contain double spends of unconfirmed inputs No, it is a wish. I hope in

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-28 Thread James Hilliard via bitcoin-dev
On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 2:09 AM raymo via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > Hi ZmnSCPxj, > > Why you get the signal “trust the Gazin wallet”? > Sabu is a protocol and the Gazin wallet will be an implementation of > that protocol. We will implement it in react-native language to support > both Android and

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-28 Thread raymo via bitcoin-dev
Hi ZmnSCPxj, Why you get the signal “trust the Gazin wallet”? Sabu is a protocol and the Gazin wallet will be an implementation of that protocol. We will implement it in react-native language to support both Android and iPhone. Of course it will be open source and GPL3. Here is the repository

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-27 Thread ZmnSCPxj via bitcoin-dev
Good morning Raymo, > > It looks you already missed the entire design of Sabu and its > restrictions. First of all, the Gazin wallet always controls the Sabu > restrictions for every transaction in order to consider it as a valid > transaction in a valid deal. That is, the creditor wallet

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-27 Thread raymo via bitcoin-dev
On 2021-06-27 04:53, ZmnSCPxj wrote: Good evening ZmnSCPxj It looks you already missed the entire design of Sabu and its restrictions. First of all, the Gazin wallet always controls the Sabu restrictions for every transaction in order to consider it as a valid transaction in a valid deal. That

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-26 Thread ZmnSCPxj via bitcoin-dev
Good morning Raymo, > Good morning ZmnSCPxj > Sorry for late reply. > > > Guarantee Transactions (GT) being higher-fee is not assured. > > The question is “assuring what?”. > The whole point of my proposal is the fact that issuers and creditors > act rationally and won't harm their selves. The

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-26 Thread raymo via bitcoin-dev
Good morning ZmnSCPxj Sorry for late reply. > Guarantee Transactions (GT) being higher-fee is ***not*** assured. The question is “assuring what?”. The whole point of my proposal is the fact that issuers and creditors act rationally and won't harm their selves. The numbers (input and output

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-22 Thread Billy Tetrud via bitcoin-dev
I would be interested in seeing some more information about the benefits of this approach vs alternatives up front in this write up. Eg how does the security, cost, usability, and privacy compare to the lightning network, which would be the most likely competitor to this idea. It seems clear that

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-19 Thread James Hilliard via bitcoin-dev
I think you're making a number of assumptions about mining that are not accurate. > First of all, how much chance in finding next block the corrupted miners > have? One percent of all Bitcoin hash powers? Or maximum 5 percent or 10? The > cheaters must come up in dividing that 1.2 Bitcoin

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-19 Thread ZmnSCPxj via bitcoin-dev
Good morning Raymo, > Hi, > I have a proposal for improve Bitcoin TPS and privacy, here is the post. > https://raymo-49157.medium.com/time-to-boost-bitcoin-circulation-million-transactions-per-second-and-privacy-1eef8568d180 > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5344020.0 > Can you please

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-19 Thread Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev
There is no solution to preventing the fraud proofs. This is a known issue for Bitcoin in general. It basically caps your protocol at the cost of performing a fraud proof attack. Also I would ditch email in the core protocol, and use QR codes and device-to-device linking. client a shows QR

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-18 Thread raymo via bitcoin-dev
Hi Alex, The 10 Sat fee is Sabu-transaction-fee and goes to issuers to incentivize UTXO owners to put their money in system and prepare money transfer service for the Creditors. pretty much like banks. This number is my suggestion, but can be changed to something higher or lesser or even being

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-18 Thread raymo via bitcoin-dev
I think I respond to sybil attack implicitly in Max response. Since the only consensus must be between issuer and creditor and they already are in a kind of web of trust connection. By the way it would be great if you explain the attack scenario in more detail and our conventional terms such as

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-18 Thread Alex Schoof via bitcoin-dev
A few questions/comments: Why is there a 10 sat fee on each tx? Where does that fee go? I don’t think this design sufficiently protects against double spends by the “issuer” (the person who actually has the UTXO). Your guarantee tx mechanism only really covers the case where someone tries to

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-18 Thread Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev
It is vulnerable to sybil attacks or where the recipient is a victim of a proxy attack. If the recipient is not connected to a valid Network, then double spends could be allowed. as long as this protocol is intended for use of transactions around a dollar or so I don't see that being a

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-18 Thread Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev
for very small transactions, this seems to make a hell of a lot of sense. it's like lightning, but with no limits, no routing protocols... everything is guaranteed by relative fees and the cost-of-theft. pretty cool. On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 4:14 PM raymo via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > Hi, > I have

[bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-06-17 Thread raymo via bitcoin-dev
Hi, I have a proposal for improve Bitcoin TPS and privacy, here is the post. https://raymo-49157.medium.com/time-to-boost-bitcoin-circulation-million-transactions-per-second-and-privacy-1eef8568d180 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5344020.0 Can you please read it and share your idea about