Re: [bitcoin-dev] Stumbling into a contentious soft fork activation attempt

2022-01-04 Thread Prayank via bitcoin-dev
Hi Michael, > If OP_CTV is ready to go now and has overwhelming community support (I don’t > think either is true) it should surely have been included in the Taproot soft > fork (perhaps delayed) rather than going through the months of activation > wrangling and community outreach twice. It sh

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Stumbling into a contentious soft fork activation attempt

2022-01-04 Thread Christian Decker via bitcoin-dev
Prayank via bitcoin-dev writes: >> To contrast with his approach, the authors and contributors of >> another future soft fork proposal (BIP 118 [3], SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT) >> aren’t promoting an imminent soft fork activation attempt and instead >> are building out and testing one of the speculated us

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Stumbling into a contentious soft fork activation attempt

2022-01-04 Thread Michael Folkson via bitcoin-dev
> It should be ready to go in a few months IMO What is this assessment based on? I am assuming you haven't done a code review of the opcode, you haven't coded up a real world use case of OP_CTV (or even a primitive proof of concept), you haven't thought about alternative proposals for any parti

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Stumbling into a contentious soft fork activation attempt

2022-01-04 Thread Prayank via bitcoin-dev
Hi Christian, A few things are mentioned in these threads including unsolved research issues in which you were tagged and Richard Myers had even replied so I am assuming this is known: https://twitter.com/JeremyRubin/status/1460349481518465025 https://twitter.com/ajtowns/status/147758600225223

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Stumbling into a contentious soft fork activation attempt

2022-01-04 Thread Prayank via bitcoin-dev
What I have done related to OP_CTV? https://twitter.com/prayankgahlot/status/1456643891885592579 What am I currently working on that is not shared publicly and will do in next few weeks? Review pull request 21702 and write contracts using Sapio based on few ideas that I already have. What is

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Stumbling into a contentious soft fork activation attempt

2022-01-04 Thread Michael Folkson via bitcoin-dev
You are working on a use case of OP_CTV now? Cool, you only recently announced you were working on Bitcoin Knots (and I think Wasabi before that) so I'm losing track of all the announcements. Regardless stick with it and build out more than a rudimentary proof of concept. That is one of the thin

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Stumbling into a contentious soft fork activation attempt

2022-01-04 Thread Prayank via bitcoin-dev
> You are working on a use case of OP_CTV now? I think I mentioned clearly what I would be doing: 1. Review pull request 2. Create contracts with Sapio. This would help me review OP_CTV and learn new things. > Cool, you only recently announced you were working on Bitcoin Knots (and I > think W