Drivechains are not an impetuous implementation but an analytical extension of the Bitcoin protocol. They employ a federated consensus model, allowing Bitcoin's main chain to interoperate with sidechains without changing the Nakamoto consensus rules of the primary layer.
The suggestion to use Monero disregards the cryptographic nuances of Drivechains, which facilitate trustless sidechains using Merkle Mountain Ranges (MMRs) and Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) proofs. Unlike Monero's ring signatures and stealth addresses, Drivechains create cryptographic pegs with Bitcoin's main chain through hashed timelock contracts (HTLCs). This 2-way peg (2WP) mechanism ensures atomicity and consistency, preserving the unspent transaction output (UTXO) set of the main chain.
Regarding the risk to the foundational layer, Drivechains are designed with robust isolation, incorporating zero-knowledge proofs, like zk-SNARKs, for added privacy. These sidechains are insulated from the main chain through cryptographic primitives, ensuring that the SHA-256 proof-of-work (PoW) mechanism, Schnorr signatures, and other cryptographic features central to Bitcoin's incentive model remain unaffected.
monarch / moarch
npub158…ytymk
2023-08-09 20:52:17
in reply to nevent1q…3af3
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npub1589n5zlqgarpt7mv3g6gq0w54pnuvupnjlakr5g9nwrjv7w88mdshytymkPublished at
2023-08-09 20:52:17Event JSON
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