Drivechain is a proposed soft fork that has faced a lot of criticism in the community, and Shinobi (Technical Editor of Bitcoin Magazine) joins me to discuss his critiques of the idea. We discuss:

• What is Drivechain
• How it works
• Miner centralisation
• Re orgs on sidechains
• T-shirt sales argument
• Stratum v2
• “Miners can steal”
• Other soft fork ideas (e.g. APO, CTV)
• Multi Party Channels
• “First Develop with what we’ve got”

Links

• brian_trollz on X
• Drivechains Introduce New Incentive Dynamics to Bitcoin 
• Achim Warner - Thoughts on Drivechain I

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