James O’Beirne joined Brink engineers to discuss his OP_VAULT proposal and the associated BIP.
In this wide ranging discussion of covenants and vaults we discussed:
- Overview of the OP_VAULT proposal and whitepaper
- Questions about complexity
- Emulating OP_VAULT with Elements opcodes
- “Deferred checks” and batching
- BIP345 review
- Future ideas
- Inheritance planning
- Multiple trigger and recovery leaves
- Contrasting OP_VAULT with SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT
- OP_CTV use cases
- LN-Symmetry and its implications
This discussion was recorded on May 12, 2023.
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