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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: New paper: Accelerating Bitcoin's Trasaction Processing
by
Peter Todd
on 06/12/2013, 11:07:56 UTC
Hi Aviv,

Has your paper already been peer-reviewed?

We are peer-reviewing it now ;-). No better review mechanisms than a btctalk thread.

+1


Firstly: it's awesome to see such research.

Now, is litecoin too conservative to try to incorporate this?

I think yes, so let's make TreeCoin?

Note how this idea can easily be implemented as a merge-mined coin, and if merge-mined with Bitcoin, that can naturally lead towards an eventual "pure" Bitcoin implementation; I'd recommend considering using the Bitcoin UTXO set as the basis for the coin's initial distribution. Of course, until the merge-mined chain gets >50% hashing power of Bitcoin as a whole it's in theory insecure, but that's IMO fine for an experiment that may lead to something concrete. (do it merge-mined with testnet first)