Re: [bitcoin-dev] Validity Rollups on Bitcoin

2022-11-04 Thread Trey Del Bonis via bitcoin-dev
Hi all, I figured I could answer some of these rollup questions, There's a few different possibilities to make rollups work that have different tradeoffs.  The core construction I worked out in [1] involves a quine-ish recursive covenant that stores some persistent "state" as part of the beginning

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Base64-encoded descriptors

2019-12-25 Thread Trey Del Bonis via bitcoin-dev
Part of the aversion to using bech32 may be that the BCH code used in bech32 for error detection doesn't hold up for messages longer than some length (that I can't remember off the top of my head). It still encodes and decodes perfectly well but a decoder won't be guaranteed to detect potential er

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Fortune Cookies to Bitcoin Seed

2019-03-06 Thread Trey Del Bonis via bitcoin-dev
take-out the other day. :) On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 8:06 PM James MacWhyte wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 4:39 PM Trey Del Bonis via bitcoin-dev > wrote: >> >> Keeping 20 around is a little excessive but it gives 390700800 possible >> wallets. So security can be t

[bitcoin-dev] Fortune Cookies to Bitcoin Seed

2019-03-05 Thread Trey Del Bonis via bitcoin-dev
Hello all, This might be another proto-BIP similar to the post about using a card shuffle as a wallet seed that was posted here a few weeks back: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2019-February/016645.html This is an idea I had to deriving a wallet seed from the lucky number

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Implementing Confidential Transactions in extension blocks

2019-02-12 Thread Trey Del Bonis via bitcoin-dev
>Under this point-of-view, then, extension block is "not" soft fork. >It is "evil" soft fork since older nodes are forced to upgrade as their >intended functionality becomes impossible. >In this point-of-view, it is no better than a hard fork, which at least is >very noisy about how older fullnod