Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin covenants are inevitable

2022-06-11 Thread Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev
On Mon, Jun 06, 2022 at 09:02:18AM -0400, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Maintaining the security of the protocol is squarely the responsibility of > the Bitcoin software and the core developers > > Continued demand for block space is critical for Bitcoin's security. Only because the

[bitcoin-dev] BIP47 Prague Discussion

2022-06-11 Thread Ruben Somsen via bitcoin-dev
This discussion took place at Pizza Day Prague 2022[0] after a brief discussion on Silent Payments[1]. The main points have been summarized below. The discussion was mainly between Alekos Filini, Martin Habovštiak, and myself, as well as Daniela Brozzoni, Eric Sirion, Pavol Rusnak, Salvatore

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP47 Prague Discussion

2022-06-11 Thread Paul Sztorc via bitcoin-dev
FYI there is a version 3 of bip47 (which Ranvier published somewhere else [0]). It already gets them down to a marginal 64 bytes, with a small privacy drawback. The transaction from A can be double used as both a notification to Bob and a payment to Bob. The notification output is multisig OP