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Bitcoin Sikho · 113w
So these tx’s are similar to utxos that are small and fees are higher than the sats you’re trying to move? So covenants aren’t useful in their current state to scale L1?
niftynei() 🇺🇸💸🧡 profile picture
no it’s a reduction in the amount of data you need to write to chain; instead of writing in a pubkey you write in the promise to pay a bunch of pubkeys at some point, in the future

and in fact that bitcoin cant be used for anything else

then you have a promise and not a utxo, which is pretty worthless if you want to use that promise to pay someone else

so people are trying to design ways to pay each other with promises instead
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niftynei() 🇺🇸💸🧡 · 113w
in theory paying with promises is less data than paying to pubkeys, so it costs less to transact the protocol for doing this hasn’t been fully built + proposed yet; Ark is probably the thing closest to existing
Bitcoin Sikho · 113w
I get how these covenants work, where a tx doesn’t have to be mined in order for me to send these tx’s to you, hence it can scale, but I’m talking about the part where you mentioned these promises are unenforceable and not economical to claim outright So are you saying you’re stuck with the...