Week 5 Discussion Questions
Group discussion questions for week 5 of the Chaincode Labs Remote Seminars
Miniscript: Streamlined Bitcoin Scripting
A look into how we can make (complex) Bitcoin Scripting more accessible by using a language to represent the scripts: ‘Miniscript’
Using The Chain For What Chains Are Good For
Poelstra explains the distinction between validation and execution of scripts and which of these operations you want your blockchain to handle
Bitcoin Script: Past and Future
Adversarial Thinking in the Peer-to-Peer Network & Bitcoin Script: Past and Future
Week 3 discussion questions
Discussion questions from week 3 of the Chaincode Remote Learning
Week 3 paired question on stale block rate
How is a high stale block rate the best indicator that block propagation times are too high? What does stale block rate tell us? Are there any better metrics?
Advances in block propagation
What techniques and technologies have been used to improve block relay and why block relay is important for network health.
Mining & Consensus
A look into how bitcoin mining works and how we can derive decentralised consensus from it.