Re: [bitcoin-dev] Two Drivechain BIPs

2017-12-04 Thread Paul Sztorc via bitcoin-dev
Hi Matt, Thanks for very much for your thoughtful review Comments below. On 12/3/2017 4:32 PM, Matt Corallo wrote: > ... > > ... > > Comments on BIP 1: > > At a high level, I'm rather dissapointed by the amount of data that is > going into the main chain here. Things such as a human readable

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Two Drivechain BIPs

2017-12-04 Thread Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev
On Sunday 03 December 2017 9:32:15 PM Matt Corallo wrote: > Given the lack of convincing evidence of that "Risk of centralisation of > mining" drawback in section 4.3 of the sidechains paper has been > meaningfully addressed, I'd say its pretty important that new sidechains be > an incredibly rare

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Updates on Confidential Transactions efficiency

2017-12-04 Thread Andrew Poelstra via bitcoin-dev
To follow up on the remarkable work Greg announced from Benedikt Bünz (Stanford) and Jonathan Bootle (UCL) on Bulletproofs: https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1066 Summary = Over the last couple weeks, along with Jonas Nick, Pieter Wuille, Greg Maxwell and Peter Dettmann, I've implemented the