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Chris Belcher

Author of 2 BIPs.

  • BIP 46: Address Scheme for Timelocked Fidelity Bonds: Draft. Defines how HD wallets create time-locked addresses for "fidelity bonds," where coins are locked for a period to prove a costly commitment. Such bonds can help resist fake identities in systems like…
  • BIP 326: Anti-fee-sniping in taproot transactions: Draft. Recommends that Taproot wallets sometimes use a transaction's sequence field, instead of its lock-time field, for their anti-fee-sniping protection (a measure discouraging miners from rewriting…