I’m surprised there is no more outrage from bitcoiners regarding #covenants. After doing a cursory research on the topic, it seems that covenants would mean the end of permissionless #Bitcoin and the generalization of #KYC-ed #BTC.
- Covenants can enforce spending outputs to KYCed addresses only.
- Covenants can enforce receiving BTC from KYCed addresses only
- #Covenant rules applied to a given output would propagate to future spending of this output.
In short, all BTC leaving a regulated entity could only be spend to KYCed addresses forever.
Maybe I missed it, but I haven’t seen the plebs being outrage about this risk for Bitcoin. I heard a lot more criticism about #drivechains though. This tell me that some of the vocal opposition is either controlled opposition or uninformed.
#OPCAT #OPCTV #drivechain
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