Is OpenTimestamps incompatible with or threatenedby the Bitcoin Knots fork of BitcoinCore and/or the OCEANmining pool?| petertodd.org
I was asked by Kruw to analyze and respond to Yuval“nothingmuch” Kogman’s post1 on centralized,coordinator-based, deanonymization attacks. In particular2,at...| petertodd.org
An unintuitive aspect of the Lightning protocol is that channels in the middleof your route don’t have to be real. If Alice is trying to pay BTC to David,thr...| petertodd.org
With the recent success of Starship’s 5th and 6th test flights, mining Bitcoinin space and data centers inspace have gotten renewed attention. But everytime ...| petertodd.org
On-chain wallets achieve a roughly 1-1 mapping of transactions to transactions: for every economic transaction that a user performs, roughly one blockchain transaction is needed. Aggregations, coinjoin, cut-through-payments, etc. change this statement a bit. But it’s roughly correct. Lightning achieved a many-to-one mapping of transactions to transactions: the magic of Lightning is that an effectively infinite number of economic transactions can happen in a single Lighting channel, which it...| Peter Todd
I recently released a prototype Libre Relay fork of Bitcoin Core v26.0, that amongother things, implements Pure Replace-By-Fee-Rate (RBFR)with a 2x ratio. Th...| petertodd.org
Currently Bitcoin Core implements a Replace-by-Fee (RBF) policy, wheretransactions are not replaced unless the new transaction pays at least a highertotal fe...| petertodd.org
V3 transactions is a proposed set of mempool policies with the aim of allowingtransactions to use Child-Pays-For-Parent (CPFP), anchor outputs, and packagere...| petertodd.org
V3 Transactions1 is a set of transaction relay policiesintended to aim L2/contracting protocols, namely Lightning. The main aim of V3transactions is to solve...| petertodd.org
Note: This was originally publishedto the Bitcoin Development mailing list.| petertodd.org
At present, all notable proof-of-work currencies reward miners with both a blockreward, and transaction fees. With most currencies (including Bitcoin) phasin...| petertodd.org