TIL that Layer Two Labs (Paul Sztorc's drive chain company) made a fork of Blue Wallet. It allows you to interact with a signet that has activated BIP 300 / 301 and some of the drive chains.
I've not really found drive chains to be particularly compelling, but its trustodial properties probably aren't so different than ecash or even some of the statechain stuff that Spark is doing...except that it seems to require a soft fork to work.
But it's cool to see that they've built out a signet ecosystem. Who knows, maybe it will catch on?
I would check this out if I didn't find Sztorc to be so obnoxious.
I actually met him at TabConf last year and had a very pleasant conversation. But in his promotion of drive chains there is a certain overconfidence or something that always raises my resistance.
according to @ihatevake it's because he's been so right and treated wrong for so long
I wouldn't say "treated wrong," so much as, "bitcoin development is mired in stasis, and a lot of good ideas never get adoption because of that natural stasis."
blink twice if the reason he's premining is to discredit the fork so it doesn't compete with bitcoin
a. The coin isn't bitcoin. It doesn't pretend to be bitcoin. It's not called bitcoin.
b. The vast majority of cryptos (LTC, ETH, SOL, etc.) give nothing whatsoever to bitcoiners or to satoshi. This fork rewards all bitcoiners 1:1, and satoshi 50% of his stack, which is better than everything else except basically BCH.
c. Satoshi has nothing to lose. If eCash fails and goes to $0.00, then Satoshi has lost nothing. It was simply a silly experiment and Paul was wrong. And if eCash succeeds, surpasses bitcoin and becomes the one world currency or whatever, then that means bitcoin was flawed and needed drivechains (aka Paul was right) and eCash in effect saved half of his wealth, at the cost of the other half.
Do you agree that premines hurt a currency's trajectory?
The premine makes it hard for me to take eCash seriously. I don't think I'm alone.
There's been a free, no-premine version of it available for 10 years. It's called BIP 300/301. If bitcoiners don't want to adopt it, fine, but this isn't really about the premine, it's just people opposing drivechains for the typical reasons.