On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Peter Todd p...@petertodd.org wrote:
Merge-mined sidechains are not a scaling solution any more than SPV is a
scaling solution because they don't solve the scaling problem for
miners.
Some kind of treechain like sidechain / subchains where what part of the
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 01:15:14PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Pieter Wuille pieter.wui...@gmail.com
wrote:
It's simple: either you care about validation, and you must validate
everything, or you don't, and you don't validate anything. Sidechains do
not
Pieter,
Am 13.06.2015 um 16:39 schrieb Pieter Wuille:
We can reasonably assume that different people's wallet will tend to be
distributed uniformly over several sidechains to hold their transactions (if
they're not, there is no scaling benefit anyway...). That means that for an
average
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 4:55 AM, Andrew onelinepr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
I briefly mentioned something about this on the bitcoin-dev IRC room. In
general, it seems experts (like sipa i.e. Pieter) are against using
sidechains as a way of scaling. As I only have a high level understanding
of
First of all, I added more info to bitcointalk.org:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1083345.0
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Pieter Wuille pieter.wui...@gmail.com
wrote:
In your proposal, transactions go to a chain based the addresses involved.
We can reasonably assume that
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:16 PM, Andrew onelinepr...@gmail.com wrote:
You should also keep in mind the big picture when it comes to
decentralization. If the hard drives (or tapes) can only be produced by a
small number of large companies like Western Digital or Seagate, then you
can't really
Hi All
I discussed this idea with some other core developers (on IRC) and they
generally seem to agree that it can be done.
It may be equivalent to an idea called blockchain extensions but when I
looked it up on bitcointalk.org I didn't see exactly the same proposal I am
making.
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Hi Andrew,
Your belief that Bitcoin has to be constrained by the belief that hardware
will never improve is extremist, but regardless, your concerns are easy to
assuage: there is no requirement that the block chain be stored on hard
disks. As you note yourself the block chain is used for
Hi
I briefly mentioned something about this on the bitcoin-dev IRC room. In
general, it seems experts (like sipa i.e. Pieter) are against using
sidechains as a way of scaling. As I only have a high level understanding
of the Bitcoin protocol, I cannot be sure if what I want to do is actually
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