BR052 - Convenance, Introspection, CTV and activation impasse ft. JamesOB & Rijndael
I’m joined by guests James O’Beirne & Rijndael to discuss CTV.
Discussion Topics
00:01:23 Guest intros
00:01:58 Recap
00:03:10 Technical overview of covenants
00:14:41 Watchtowers
00:16:16 Use cases for vaulting & scripts
00:21:53 Use cases for vaulting & scripts
00:26:10 Covenants as a solution to third party
00:27:42 Covenants and censorship risks
00:33:24 Covenants and censorship risks
00:34:07 Risks of major Bitcoin changes
00:39:39 Cryptographic improvements of CTV
00:40:14 Quantifying the scale of change in code
00:46:52 TX hash
00:49:04 Simplicity of CTV
00:50:19 The consensus deadlock
00:55:34 Social coordination and activation
01:05:55 Speedy trial - good or bad for Bitcoin?
01:16:00 Problems with Bitcoin core defaults
01:18:18 The politics of changing Bitcoin
01:23:36 Testing for consensus
01:28:37 State sabotage
01:31:56 Moving forward with activation
01:36:48 State of development and economic
01:53:04 Bitcoin.Review going late night call
01:54:04 Next steps
01:59:58 Bitcoin politics closing summary
02:01:38 Closing thoughts
Notes & Resources
NSA operation ORCHESTRA Annual Status Report - FOSDEM 2014 [cnxlinux]
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