Jameson Lopp of Casa @Casahodl talks about the furture of Bitcoin technology and the 50 forks ahead .
First I have to say Bitcoin it attracting the best minds in tech and tech firms and instantiation are worried.
There will be 50 Bitcoin forks predicted this year and you must own Bitcoin and also have the private keys to get a piece of the pie. More info on that below. When Bitcoin forks people that own Bitcoin will get free tokens in that crypto that is created basically free money.
Below changes to Bitcoin is coming to be-able to scale Bitcoin to the main stream.
lighting network: will be coming online this year allowing 3rd party to open a tunnel to process a transaction offline from the block chain allowing cheap transnational fee’s more on this below.
Schnorr signature: The Signature Algorithm to Increase Bitcoin’s Scale and Privacy.
Bulletproofs: This will allow Bitcoin to have better privacy confidential transactions.
Mimblewimble: In the confidential transactions system, all the values are homomorphically encrypted with random strings of numbers called “blinding factors.”. This means that the values cannot be seen directly
How it Works
The Lightning Network is dependent upon the underlying technology of the blockchain. By using real Bitcoin/blockchain transactions and using its native smart-contract scripting language, it is possible to create a secure network of participants which are able to transact at high volume and high speed.
Bidirectional Payment Channels. Two participants create a ledger entry on the blockchain which requires both participants to sign off on any spending of funds. Both parties create transactions which refund the ledger entry to their individual allocation, but do not broadcast them to the blockchain. They can update their individual allocations for the ledger entry by creating many transactions spending from the current ledger entry output. Only the most recent version is valid, which is enforced by blockchain-parsable smart-contract scripting. This entry can be closed out at any time by either party without any trust or custodianship by broadcasting the most recent version to the blockchain.
Lightning Network. By creating a network of these two-party ledger entries, it is possible to find a path across the network similar to routing packets on the internet. The nodes along the path are not trusted, as the payment is enforced using a script which enforces the atomicity (either the entire payment succeeds or fails) via decrementing time-locks.
Blockchain as Arbiter. As a result, it is possible to conduct transactions off-blockchain without limitations. Transactions can be made off-chain with confidence of on-blockchain enforceability. This is similar to how one makes many legal contracts with others, but one does not go to court every time a contract is made. By making the transactions and scripts parsable, the smart-contract can be enforced on-blockchain. Only in the event of non-cooperation is the court involved – but with the blockchain, the result is deterministic.
Here’s What Happens When Bitcoin Forks creating bitcoin private.
