The new sidechain is still in beta with limited distribution, but it comes with the promise to provide some serious scaling benefits to the Bitcoin network.
Merged mining tends towards centralised pools, since
each new Sidechain adds overhead to the miner.
He noted the launch of Liquid,
a new sidechain developed by industry startup Blockstream as proof that the bitcoin blockchain is versatile enough to meet the demands of institutions that want to develop private blockchain networks, while still gaining access to the security and network effect of the bitcoin blockchain.
Not exact matches
There were a lot of unknowns but people seemed to give them the benefit of the doubt because they were apparently about to release some
new software called «
sidechains» that could offer some benefits to the network.
Sidechains are
new blockchains which are backed by Bitcoins, via Bitcoin contracts, just as dollars and pounds used to be backed by cold hard gold.
The process has noticeable parallels to several other cryptocurrency projects out there —
sidechains have been touted as a way to tie different features to bitcoin's main network, and researchers speculate that a
new type of fork, called a velvet fork, might one day enable similar functionality.
Blockstream is introducing Simplicity, a
new programming language for blockchain - based smart contracts, intended for inclusion in Blockstream's
sidechains and eventually in Bitcoin.
«
Sidechains allow for new innovations in security models and features, plus the added benefit of faster and more cost efficient transactions - if more businesses were utilizing sidechains for use cases involving recurring transactions, they would take some pressure off the main Bitcoin blockcha
Sidechains allow for
new innovations in security models and features, plus the added benefit of faster and more cost efficient transactions - if more businesses were utilizing
sidechains for use cases involving recurring transactions, they would take some pressure off the main Bitcoin blockcha
sidechains for use cases involving recurring transactions, they would take some pressure off the main Bitcoin blockchain.»
The Liquid network is a federated
sidechain designed to provide
new features and benefits to exchanges, users, and businesses by leveraging a
sidechain which will process transactions more quickly and efficiently than the main Bitcoin blockchain.
, a
new programming language for blockchain - based smart contracts, intended for inclusion in Blockstream's
sidechains and eventually in Bitcoin.
«
Sidechains extend Bitcoin functionality through interoperable blockchain networks and today's open source release includes an experimental
sidechain that has a number of
new working capabilities.
According to Blockstream,
sidechains enable innovators to safely develop
new applications without jeopardizing Bitcoin's core code and putting billions of dollars worth of digital currency at risk.
Sidechain Elements includes functioning code and a testing environment for working with sidechains with several components: the core network software to build an initial testing sidechain, eight new features not currently supported by Bitcoin, a basic wallet and the code for moving coins between blockchains.Blockstream's CTO and Bitcoin Core developer Gregory Maxwell explains Sidechain Elements in a video on the Blockstream
Sidechain Elements includes functioning code and a testing environment for working with
sidechains with several components: the core network software to build an initial testing
sidechain, eight new features not currently supported by Bitcoin, a basic wallet and the code for moving coins between blockchains.Blockstream's CTO and Bitcoin Core developer Gregory Maxwell explains Sidechain Elements in a video on the Blockstream
sidechain, eight
new features not currently supported by Bitcoin, a basic wallet and the code for moving coins between blockchains.Blockstream's CTO and Bitcoin Core developer Gregory Maxwell explains
Sidechain Elements in a video on the Blockstream
Sidechain Elements in a video on the Blockstream website.
Recently, blockchain developer Blockstream introduced Simplicity, a
new programming language for blockchain - based smart contracts, intended for inclusion in Blockstream's
sidechains and eventually in Bitcoin.
By early 2015, Blockstream engineers decided to implement a
new feature in the company's prototype
sidechain Elements, which was publicly announced in June of that year.
As a side note,
new opcodes are required to bring
sidechains functionality to the Bitcoin blockchain.
In addition,
sidechains made big headlines this week, as innovation in the bitcoin space continues to develop and bring exciting
new ideas.
The authors of the much - discussed Bitcoin
Sidechains paper «Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged
Sidechains,» released in October, have formed the company Blockstream to develop
new ways to accelerate innovation in digital currencies, open assets and smart contracts.
The
new, improved app sits on the Ethereum Blockchain with the unique combination of
sidechain solutions in individual African countries, such as Uganda, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Rwanda.
The blockchain project, named after a spell from the Harry Potter book series, has been looking for ways to attach itself to bitcoin since 2016, but with its platform getting closer to being ready (and options like
sidechains still in development), developers now argue launching a
new cryptocurrency is simply the easiest way to test MimbleWimble with real users.
On this
sidechain, users could transact freely and privately for as long as they want, until the
new owner decides to «move» the funds back to the Bitcoin blockchain by unlocking the original output.
A
new proposal considers how bitcoin
sidechains might be secured using a system similar to those being discussed in experimental proof - of - stake...
A unique proposal aimed at scaling bitcoin's transaction capacity via
sidechains has been revealed in a
new white paper.
Last week, Adam Back and Austin Hill came out with an announcement on Let's Talk Bitcoin, in which they announced their
newest project: «
sidechains».
First coined by computer scientists working on building proofs that can potentially be used to improve
sidechains, a layer - two cryptocurrency technology for pushing transactions off - chain, a velvet fork allows developers to add
new rules to a blockchain without full support from the entire ecosystem.
There were several
new developments in the world of Bitcoin this week, such as the release of the anticipated
Sidechains project, and Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne to be the first to purchase a «cryptobond».
The biggest advantage of
sidechains is that they would allow users to access a host of
new services.
Remember, a
sidechain is a completely
new and independent blockchain, and that's why Lisk allows for a special transaction type to transfer LSK tokens from the mainchain to a
sidechain.
Lisk is a relatively
new cryptocurrency that claims to be the first to take a step into
sidechains, thus describing itself as very modular.
Sidechains allow Bitcoin to be locked into a peg and to be released on a secondary blockchain as a different asset with
new functionalities and features.
Although Blockstream has talked about the federated peg system before in their first
sidechains paper, this
new release explores the subject and presents a system that allows all participants to be economically incentivized to operate in the best interest of the network, ensuring that both the generation of
new blocks and the withdrawal from the
sidechain runs smoothly.
Because of this, developers have long sought to make it easier to use more experimental technologies on bitcoin with so - called «
sidechains,» which pin
newer blockchains with innovative technical features to bitcoin.
The whitepaper of CSL talks about implementation of several
new features including an increased scalability,
sidechains for linking other ledgers, two sets of scripting languages, and many more.
He noted, «
Sidechains allow «opt in» adoption of
new features.»