Will Drivechain Centralise Bitcoin? with Shinobi (SLP512)

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

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