Re: [bitcoin-dev] Segregated witnesses and validationless mining

2016-01-02 Thread Bryan Bishop via bitcoin-dev
On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Jorge Timón wrote: > > Updates from IRC discussion: > > Is there a link to the IRC discussion? prior-block possession proofs, fraud proofs, non-fraud correctness proofs, commitments and segwit: https://botbot.me/freenode/bitcoin-core-dev/2015-12-28/?msg=56907496&p

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Segregated witnesses and validationless mining

2016-01-02 Thread Jorge Timón via bitcoin-dev
Is there a link to the IRC discussion? On Jan 1, 2016 12:49 AM, "Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev" < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 05:31:19PM -0800, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > # Summary > > Updates from IRC discussion: Is there a link to the IRC dis

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Segregated witnesses and validationless mining

2015-12-31 Thread Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 05:31:19PM -0800, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote: > # Summary Updates from IRC discussion: 1) There was some debate about what exactly should be required from the current block to calculate the previous block posession proof. For instance, requiring the coinbase outputs

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Segregated witnesses and validationless mining

2015-12-23 Thread Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 05:31:19PM -0800, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote: > # Easy solution: previous witness data proof > > To return segregated witnesses to the status quo, we need to at least > make having the previous block's witness data be a precondition to > creating a block with transact

[bitcoin-dev] Segregated witnesses and validationless mining

2015-12-22 Thread Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev
# Summary 1) Segregated witnesses separates transaction information about what coins were transferred from the information proving those transfers were legitimate. 2) In its current form, segregated witnesses makes validationless mining easier and more profitable than the status quo, particularly