[bitcoin-dev] Covenants and capabilities in the UTXO model

2021-12-31 Thread Bram Cohen via bitcoin-dev
There are a few different approaches to adding covenants and capabilities to the UTXO model with varying tradeoffs. It turns out that it can be done while making very few but not quite zero compromises to practices Bitcoin has been following so far. First, the good news: Full support for both capa

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP-119 Deployment and Review Workshops

2021-12-31 Thread Heritage Samuel Falodun via bitcoin-dev
Okay Jeremy, I plan to attend. On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 9:29 PM Jeremy via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > Dear Bitcoin Developers, > > I've selected a time (every 2 weeks on Tuesday 12:00 PM PT starting > January 11th in Liber ##ctv-bip-review) to host a recurring me

Re: [bitcoin-dev] On the regularity of soft forks

2021-12-31 Thread Keagan McClelland via bitcoin-dev
> But whether or not it is a basic principle of general software engineering kind of misses the point. Security critical software clearly isn't engineered in the same way as a new social media app. Bugs are easily reverted in a new social media app.On top of that we aren't just dealing with securi