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From: blk0 <blk0@protonmail.com>
To: "bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org"
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Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] ZeroSync: Introducing Validity Proofs to Bitcoin
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2023 07:49:02 +0000	[thread overview]
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Peter Todd wrote:

>Two serious issues with this proposal:

>1) You're creating an alternative implementation of the Bitcoin protocol. There
>is a _long_ history of such implementations failing to implement an exact copy
>of the consensus rules, leading to potential forks. Obviously, if only used by
>otherwise lite clients, there is less of a risk associated with this. But the
>risk is there and will expand as this tech is used for more sophisticated
>things.

There is a general purpose zkVM implementation for the RISC-V instruction set:

https://www.risczero.com/

Since Bitcoin Core can be compiled for RISC-V, and RiscZero can prove
execution traces of a RISC-V VM, this argument no longer applies: the exact
consensus rules would be applied and verified.

@blk014

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             reply	other threads:[~2023-08-28  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-28  7:49 blk0 [this message]
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2023-05-12 12:12 [bitcoin-dev] ZeroSync: Introducing Validity Proofs to Bitcoin Robin Linus
2023-05-12 15:32 ` Weiji Guo
2023-05-12 16:03   ` Robin Linus
2023-06-05 18:47 ` Peter Todd
2023-06-05 18:59 ` Erik Aronesty

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