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Drivechains

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Drivechains are a sidechain design that uses blind merged mining and a miner-mediated withdrawal mechanism to move value between Bitcoin and an auxiliary chain. The design trades federation trust for miner governance and new consensus assumptions.

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Curated resources (3)

• Drivechain Information (article) Primary overview of the drivechain proposal and its miner-mediated peg model.
• Bitcoin Layer Two Resources (article) Curated context for drivechains among Bitcoin layer designs.
• Mastering Bitcoin (book) Background for sidechains, mining, and Bitcoin settlement.

Direct prerequisites (2)

• Merged Mining
• Sidechains

Direct dependents (0)

• None

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