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Apologies, it wasn’t my intent to misrepresent your thesis. My understanding from your article “The Place of Drivechain in Bitcoin’s Future” was that:

Bitcoin needs mass adoption otherwise it will die. And “without Drivechain, Bitcoin will be a fragile success in the best case and dead in the worst case scenario.”

Anyway, even though I don’t have the technical chops to know the right way to scale, I appreciate the different points of view and ways to attack the problem. Build on brother 🤛

fiatjaf 2y ago

OK, yes, that is better.

I don't think you need to have technical chops to be able to understand Drivechain, it is just a game-theoretical construct that makes Bitcoin much better if it works, not worse at all if it doesn't.

Maybe you need some technical chops to understand that all other scaling methods that rely on pure cryptography and Bitcoin script have horrible tradeoffs. Not saying they shouldn't be tried, everything has its place, but it won't get better than Lightning -- which is not great.

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His_Name_Was_Robert_Paulson 2y ago

And if applied, introducing unintended consequences. The risk is higher then the reward applying drivechain. Ordinals was not seen coming from implementing sigwit and taproot . If it is a great idea, let it be tested on litecoin.

Cyber Seagull 2y ago

Drivechain is less intrusive than taproot.

His_Name_Was_Robert_Paulson 2y ago

You actually dont know that. Usually when people are this confident, it bits them in the ass. If its actually worth it. It should be tested over a fork of bitcoin. Otherwise its just a risk or an attack. The open market already shows people dont want care about shitcoin assets. Rootstock and liquid have no demand. Building off lightning is the logical step