Re: [bitcoin-dev] How to preserve the value of coins after a fork.

2015-12-30 Thread Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 30 December 2015 12:22:43 GMT-08:00, "Emin Gün Sirer" wrote: >On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Peter Todd wrote: > >> Note how transaction malleability can quickly sabotage naive notions >of >> this

[bitcoin-dev] How to preserve the value of coins after a fork.

2015-12-30 Thread Emin Gün Sirer via bitcoin-dev
Ittay Eyal and I just put together a writeup that we're informally calling Bitcoin-United for preserving the value of coins following a permanent fork: http://hackingdistributed.com/2015/12/30/technique-to-unite-bitcoin-factions/ Half of the core idea is to eliminate double-spends (where