Evil plan: If one-way pegs become popular people may start demanding an opcode for a trustless two-way peg.
Discussion
Are there even any proposals. My understanding was it is just drive chains but those aren't trust less
If I need to trust half of all the hash rate, that's trustless in my book. But I know people don't share that view.
ZK_VERIFY is another one (I think there is no formal proposal for this one).
Pay-to-Snark was not remotely practical when in 2013 when Maxwell proposed it
The Jonestown Kool Aid ceremony was a one-way peg.
Can you translate that joke (?) for a non-US person?
The Jonestown Massacare was a community of mostly Americans that committed mass suicide in 1978 in Guyana lead by 'charismatic' religious leader Jim Jones.
Stacks solved this, but their solution is not on mainnet yet. (shitcoin alert, sue me, etc)
Yeah, I think I see it as there are other coins that are smart contract coins. If you created another coin, that's not making Bitcoin do something new. That's STX doing something, just like ETH does something. Rootstock manages to do alot without creating an altcoin.
Ethereum cannot read or write to Bitcoin. Stacks can and does and has its own wire formats and op codes, which is why this works on Stacks and not on any other existing chains.
Okay, every feature that I see that Stacks does, and it has a bunch, I just see it as a feature of Stacks. (I never look at a feature of Stacks and think "Bitcoin does that." I do when I see micropayments on Lightning, for example.)
I agree with you and did not mean to suggest otherwise. Existing implementation is not Bitcoin, just uses Bitcoin in a novel way. Future implementations will change this however, in precisely the way suggested by #[2]
Any hope to handcrank?