Damus
test1 · 1d
Rootstock is fully compatible with Ethereum and it use Bitcoin via merge mining. According to Kimi K3, the required changes are minimal and include recalculating the checksum, changing the endpoint...
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Huh, so it's starting to sound like inkan would likely run on rootstock. One question then is whether that would be advantageous as compared to ethereum. I need to better understand what merge mining is. It seems like rootstock gets a lot of hashrate from it but it's not clear if the miners have anything really at stake there, i.e. it seems like a large pool could reorg rootstock without losing anything? I'm not sure if it protects against reorgs in the way in which Ethereum finality does. Also, rootstock seems like the more exotic product and it seems to have fewer endpoints, so it might be less suitable for broader adoption than something based on ethereum maybe. But I first need to do more reading to really understand how it works.
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test1 · 23h
I don't know about the actual implementation of Rootstock Merge Mining, but it was hardened to count in the event of a reorganisation. Rootstock uses verified HSM hardware on the pool mining nodes, which verifies when BTC pegs out and pegs in. The last update I did was when the protocol maintaine...
Technical Debt · 20h
After a session of AI psychosis I feel like I’m more on side of Rootsocks than before. Ethereum finality is only relevant in the context of a PoS chain, Rootstock being PoW means you can just count confirmations instead. As for reorgs, Rootstock has multiple preventive measures (Armadillo, Times...