Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund

2022-01-11 Thread René Pickhardt via bitcoin-dev
jack via bitcoin-dev schrieb am Mi., 12. Jan. 2022, 01:35: > To Bitcoin Developers: > > Open-source developers, who are often independent, are especially > susceptible to legal pressure. Will the fund eventually also help to educate developers about the risks they are facing and which measures

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Proposal: Force to do nothing for first 9 minutes to save 90% of mining energy

2021-05-15 Thread René Pickhardt via bitcoin-dev
Hey Michael, First I think the idea of "do nothing in the first 9 minutes" will unfortunately not be useful as the computed work is mainly there to prevent miners from altering the history of previous blocks. Thus following your suggesting would probably drastically decease the security of the