This tag should be used for questions referring to the Liquid inter-exchange settlement network developed by Blockstream.
Questions tagged [liquid]
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How to emulate SIGHASH_NOINPUT using CHECKSIGFROMSTACKVERIFY?
I read on bitcoin-dev that CHECKSIGFROMSTACKVERIFY (CHECKDATASIG in BCash) can be used to emulate new sighash flags. How would that work, concretely? As an example, please provide an example update transaction based on figure 4 of the Eltoo paper,…
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How does Elements integrate Simplicity?
Greg Maxwell noted that there are two ways to integrate Simplicity into Bitcoin. One is to make only a few select high-level constructs available (like SHA256, CheckSigHashAll), the other is to expose a full bit machine as specified in the…
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Is the contest period really necessary for cross-chain transactions in 2-way-peg sidechains?
According to the first sidechain article (Link), the cross chain transaction process can be briefly describe as follows:
Alice has a wallet on sidechain S1. She wants to send some coins to sidechain S2. So she makes a transaction containing some…
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Could you open a lightning channel in a confidential transaction?
On an elements sidechain (e.g. liquid) could you open a lightning channel with a confidential transaction.
You could probably open a payment channel but could the channel 'speak' to other channels?
Or is lightning network possible on liquid but only…
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Is there a way to verify how many Liquid Bitcoins are in existence?
Is there a way to recognize peginaddresses where bitcoins are locked up for use on the Liquid sidechain, and therefore a way to sum up the total bitcoins currently circulating on Liquid?
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What is the point of "Bitcoin Lightning" and "Bitcoin Liquid"?
Even having been "into" Bitcoin since almost since the start, I constantly find new weird things mentioned which are just apparently taken for granted and exist suddenly and somehow have tons of support and users.
Today I learned about the existence…
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Will the Liquid sidechain be open to any user?
With the recent start of the private beta of Liquid, the first sidechain is now in production on the Bitcoin network.
One of the features advertised is:
User Control – Users can hold their Liquid funds off of exchanges and in a wallet they…
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Bitcoin's Liquid Network - Unable to Broadcast PSET P2PKH issuance transaction using go-elements
While working on go-elements I've been trying to expand on pset_test.go by implementing functions that broadcast different kinds of PSET transaction. Unfortunately I can't find many technical informations about this subject.
I'm trying to implement…
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Where can one convert their bitcoins to Liquid LBTC bitcoins on Blockstreams Liquid Network?
Is there a place where one can convert their Bitcoin to Liquid BTC? Which exchanges? Is there even a mobile wallet that supports it if one wants to withdraw it?
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Why is liquid so inactive and (according to statistics) not being used yet?
After years of development 3 Months ago Liquid (the side chain project) was announced. If you look at https://liquid.horse/ you can find the following statistics as of right now:
Sidechain Stats Genesis Block September 27, 2018…
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Elements (/Liquid) Tapscript opcodes
Related question: What opcodes are supported on Liquid but not yet on Bitcoin?
I had seen few opcodes in the slides shared by notgrubles on Twitter. They…
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Bitcoin transactions associated with layer 2 projects
Is there any website which tracks the number of Bitcoin transactions, fees and amounts associated with layer 2 projects (Lightning Network, Liquid, Rootstock)?
I am curious about this because if a sidechain like Liquid doesn't really contribute to…
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Is a privacy preserving coin mixer possible on Liquid?
My thoughts:
Liquid uses confidential asset and tx. Therefore the asset type and amount is hiding from chain analysis. However the utxo's still carry history. This history could potentially lead chain analysers to form educated guesses of the…
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Are Bulletproofs fully implemented into liquid?
Blockstream themselves released a paper in 2018 about a more efficient range proof and Calles IT Bulletproofs. I'm wondering if it is already fully integrated into the liquid sidechain?
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How is this 1 input 2 output tx larger than this 2 input 2 output tx?
I saw the following liquid transaction with one input and two outputs is byte-wise bigger than another liquid transaction with two inputs and two outputs. How is this possible?
One input transaction (2772 vB):…
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