I see no opposition to Segregated Witness - not even from Peter Todd! Expect it to get fast tracked. https://t.co/aQE03ScclV
RT @jgarzik: SEC Approves https://t.co/TFQiVtnXm0 S-3 Filing to Issue Shares Using #Bitcoin #Blockchain https://t.co/rDzQLrtnW4
“I propose we work towards the segwit 4MB block
soft-fork which increases capacity & scalability.” - Gregory Maxwell https://t.co/P2NzCfOs4j
@bittunes @jtoomim Yes, faster block propagation means fewer orphan blocks and generally means that nodes stay more in sync.
@bittunes @jtoomim To be clear, proposal is for mining to remain the same - just changing process nodes use to send & receive blocks.
“Zcash team developed a secure multiparty protocol for CRS generation: only needs 1 party to delete their privkey.” @zooko #ScalingBitcoin
RT @pwuille: Segregated witness talk & proposal: transcript https://t.co/6BB31UAi7E, slides https://t.co/rNBtE4K922, code https://t.co/U7uZ…
Q: How does path discovery work on the Lightning Network?
A: We don’t know. It’s a hard problem.
#ScalingBitcoin
“If you want a stake in the future direction of an OSS project, you have to invest in its development.” @wtogami #ScalingBitcoin
“When OSS only has volunteer engineers, peer code review can languish because it’s no one’s responsibility.” @wtogami #ScalingBitcoin
“We could speed up block propagation w/a bittorrent approach: split blocks into chunks assembled into merkle tree.” @jtoomim #ScalingBitcoin
“Bitcoin nodes have validation costs; big cost is CPU cycles for OP_CHECKSIG. Block size BIPs should consider them” @n1ckler #ScalingBitcoin