Will Drivechain Centralise Bitcoin?

with Shinobi · SLP512

DATE 14 September 2023

DURATION 01:22:30

GUEST Shinobi

Drivechain is a proposed soft fork that has faced a lot of criticism in the community, and Shinobi (Technical Editor of Bitcoin Magazine) joins me to discuss his critiques of the idea. We discuss: • What is Drivechain • How it works • Miner centralisation • Re orgs on sidechains • T-shirt sales argument • Stratum v2 • “Miners can steal” • Other soft fork ideas (e.g. APO, CTV) • Multi Party Channels • “First Develop with what we’ve got” Links • brian_trollz on X • Drivechains Introduce New Incentive Dynamics to Bitcoin • Achim Warner - Thoughts on Drivechain I Sponsors: • Pacific Bitcoin Festival (code LIVERA) • CoinKite.com (code LIVERA) • Mempool.space

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