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Drivechains is a proposed soft fork that would enable two-way pegged sidechains. Withdrawals from a sidechain would be approved by hashrate majority.

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What is the difference between reliance on miners on Drivechains and Lightning?

It's commonly said that the Drivechains proposal gives much power to miners and that they can steal money from these drivechains, but I keep thinking that if what they can do is to vote on which ...
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Where are Drivechain votes computed?

In the context of the Drivechain proposal, for UTXOs in miner-controlled escrows to be spent, they have to be voted on by each block over a large number of blocks, right? Now, how are these votes ...
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How does a Drivechain output work?

It is said that Drivechain works by sending a transaction output to a miner/hashrate-controlled escrow. I know it works by allowing miners to vote over a large number of blocks on transactions, that ...
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