Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Transaction Relay over Nostr

2023-05-30 Thread Greg Sanders via bitcoin-dev
Hi Joost, David, In my mind, weak blocks' main benefit would be that it improves block relay by giving PoW-hints on what are in miner's mempools. Non-standard transactions could even be cached(even if not validated until block inclusion), which would tolerate more heterogeneity in policies

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Transaction Relay over Nostr

2023-05-30 Thread Joost Jager via bitcoin-dev
Hi David, > A block template is an ordered list of raw transactions that can all be > included in the next block (with some space reserved for a coinbase > transaction). A full node can validate those transactions and calculate > how much fee they pay. A Nostr relay can simply relay almost[1]

[bitcoin-dev] Encrypted (like BIP38) master private key

2023-05-30 Thread Ali Sherief via bitcoin-dev
Just like we have BIPP38 encrypted keys for singular private keys, I was wondering if it would be possible to come up with a way to encrypt an extended private key using reversible encryption. BIP38 was designed with physical coins in mind, and in particular covers the cases for lot and

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Merkleize All The Things

2023-05-30 Thread Johan TorĂ¥s Halseth via bitcoin-dev
I should clarify: the current proposal already achieves the first part needed for coin pools: removing some data from the merkle tree (I was indeed referring to the embedded data, not the taptree). The thing that is missing is removal of a public key from the taproot internal key, but as