News with the tag "drivechains"

An argument for why Drivechains is a necessary piece of the solution to scaling Bitcoin.

Some considerations and thoughts on the Drivechains proposal from the point of view of miners considering their business operations.

Shinobi’s Strawman is a weekly series where our Technical Editor Shinobi challenges the Bitcoin community, aiming to stir up conversation around heated technical debates.

Shinobi’s Strawman is a weekly series where our Technical Editor Shinobi challenges the Bitcoin community, aiming to stir up conversation around heated technical debates.

The proposal would allow other blockchains built on the Bitcoin network. In August, a core developer rewrote the proposal's code and requested it be added to Bitcoin's codebase, sparking new debate over its merits.

The activation of hashrate escrow in combination with blind merge mining inevitably degrades writes Bitcoin Magazine Technical Editor Shinobi.

Despite a nice few months this summer after Burak, infamous slayer of the Lightning Network, dropped his proposal for the new second layer protocol Ark where people had a lot of discussion around different covenant proposals, drivechains are once again becoming a dominant topic of discussion. There ...