Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin 2-way-pegged childchains via Proof of Burn

2020-06-25 Thread ZmnSCPxj via bitcoin-dev
Good morning CS, The difficulty is not so much the proof-of-whatever, but rather, the peg itself. My understanding of your pegout from sidechain to mainchain is that this pegout is very low-bandwidth, i.e. only a tiny amount can be pegged out at each mainchain block. This suggests to me that the

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin 2-way-pegged childchains via Proof of Burn

2020-06-25 Thread Cloud Strife via bitcoin-dev
Hi everyone, I am hoping to get a critique on a proposal of how to construct childchains "on-top" of Bitcoin without requiring any changes to Bitcoin itself nor requiring any user or miner to be aware of them. The childchain is Bitcoin-aware and simulates the properties of Proof of Work by requir