From: AdamISZ <AdamISZ@protonmail•com>
To: Billy Tetrud <billy.tetrud@gmail•com>,
Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Draft-BIP: Ordinal Numbers
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 11:17:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XdgBBHV0DwSOE9KMoCixmuFY1FpTLsoyhrPpE7zPI16nkUyGOAj_AMzi98jMCx8gAKYQdl4fodOIFFL8rpV7yCXT6XiiqvWk7bbFSyFaNUU=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGpPWDbquYT4gm_eKTrtsHsCNRf2fU0gvHOz--jRVhVgUzFHYQ@mail.gmail.com>
> I really don't see a world where bitcoin goes that route. Hiding coin amounts would make it impossible to audit the blockchain and verify that there hasn't been inflation and the emission schedule is on schedule. It would inherently remove unconditional soundness from bitcoin and replace it with computational soundness. Even if bitcoin did adopt it, it would keep backwards compatibility with old style addresses which could continue to use ordinals.
Nit: it isn't technically correct to say that amount hiding "inherently removes unconditional soundness". Such commitments can be either perfectly hiding or perfectly binding; it isn't even logically possible for them to be both, sadly. But we are not forced to choose perfect binding; El Gamal commitments, for example, are perfectly binding but only computationally hiding.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-25 11:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-23 0:43 Casey Rodarmor
2022-02-23 7:02 ` damian
2022-02-23 7:10 ` Casey Rodarmor
2022-02-23 7:24 ` damian
2022-02-23 7:31 ` Casey Rodarmor
2022-02-24 2:34 ` damian
2022-02-24 15:55 ` Billy Tetrud
2022-02-24 21:03 ` Casey Rodarmor
2022-02-25 4:59 ` Billy Tetrud
2022-02-25 11:17 ` AdamISZ [this message]
2022-02-25 15:56 ` Billy Tetrud
2022-02-24 7:02 ` vjudeu
2022-02-24 7:17 ` Casey Rodarmor
2022-02-24 17:52 vjudeu
2022-02-24 21:02 ` Casey Rodarmor
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