Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund

2022-01-12 Thread SatoshiSingh via bitcoin-dev
> The main purpose of this Fund is to defend developers from lawsuits regarding > their activities in the Bitcoin ecosystem, including finding and retaining > defense counsel, developing litigation strategy, and paying legal bills. Here in India we have the Internet Freedom Foundation that does

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Opinion on proof of stake in future

2021-06-03 Thread SatoshiSingh via bitcoin-dev
Great conversation everyone. I'm happy we're still engaged with this discussion. To add food for thought I'm bringing back something that was introduced in this mailing list sometime ago, which is Proof of Less Work. PoLW may or may not be it but we can certainly get more ideas from it to keep

[bitcoin-dev] Opinion on proof of stake in future

2021-05-07 Thread SatoshiSingh via bitcoin-dev
Hello list, I am a lurker here and like many of you I worry about the energy usage of bitcoin mining. I understand a lot mining happens with renewable resources but the impact is still high. I want to get your opinion on implementing proof of stake for bitcoin mining in future. For now, proof

[bitcoin-dev] Sorting outputs of a transaction in alphabetic order to protect privacy

2020-04-30 Thread SatoshiSingh via bitcoin-dev
Hi list. I've been a lurker for quite sometime and this is my first post. The problem I'm addressing is that generally wallet devs construct the tx with the 2nd output being of the sender as change. This helps chain analysers to identity addresses and invade the users privacy. I'm suggesting