@LukeDashjr If watchtowers never get paid, will anyone run watchtowers? Or will it only make sense to run your own?
“The reward offered to watchtowers should be relative to the value of the channel in order to disincentive bribes.… https://t.co/HTxiLK017a
On a consumer spec dual core Windows 10 laptop, benchmark results by @NicolasDorier show that clightning can proces… https://t.co/vYD6z2Ugh0
“The optimal value of Lightning channels for routing nodes increases as the on-chain fee rate increases.” - @sebareca #ScalingBitcoin
“The more payments your Lighting node routes, the cheaper you can set your routing fees to be. Thus it’s important… https://t.co/XcBgGHVeMB
Bitcoin’s block creation protocol TL;DR
Honest miners:
1. Mine blocks that point to tip of most-work chain
2. Publ… https://t.co/08oghc6kpN
The McAfee Dickline has breached bitcoin’s all-time high - we’ve got some catching up to do!… https://t.co/Woegd0A1vU
@BobMcElrath @benediktbuenz IIRC Benedict noted that there are accumulators that were created by entities that no longer exist.
Crypto may be in a bear market but we’re certainly not in a crypto conference bear market.
Bitcoin’s flood-fill transaction relay protocol does not scale well with the number of nodes and number of peers pe… https://t.co/GbBhotZpA5
“We’ve reduced key generation time for 2P-ECDSA to 1 second and signing to 29 milliseconds. Funding outputs will be… https://t.co/AwFSJQcugO
“2-party ECDSA signing can be used to jointly construct a signature on a transaction, enabling payment channel open… https://t.co/NstP5N4Map
“Our recent research determined that there is an inherent tradeoff between privacy and concurrency in payment chann… https://t.co/CL7RLziL45
“With multi-party channels now a single UTXO can potentially creates thousands of payment channels. Frequently tran… https://t.co/81e1kOWdNs
“There are 60 million UTXOs; providing merkle tree inclusion proofs that they exist requires 160GB of data. With RS… https://t.co/Hhp8On9eLV
“Fraud proofs rely upon weaker security assumptions but make it more difficult for miners to defraud SPV clients” -… https://t.co/rkOYzUBjQJ
@_BabyDriver87_ @ajtowns AJ had a chart with that data that he said he grabbed from a @danheld post. Not sure how it’s calculated.