Workshops and Activation for CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY and CHECKSIGFROMSTACK

Floppy (@1440000bytes) has been doing the yoeman's work in getting people to actually talk to each other and put their thoughts down about the various soft fork proposals out there.

Here is a post to the Bitcoin developer mailing list today. I'm not a developer nor any kind of expert on soft fork consensus building, but I like how he is going about it. I'm curious for other people's reactions.

Hi everyone,

IRC channel: #ctv-csfs-activation on libera.chat

I requested^[0] the economic nodes to review different soft fork proposals and share their opinion on 5 March 2025. Four entries were added to the wiki^[1] and nobody has any objections to the proposals. Some organizations do not want to publicly participate in this process to avoid politics and drama.

A letter^[2] was signed on 9 June 2025 by bitcoin developers to get more core contributors involved in the review process. It was followed by a proposal^[3] that makes a few changes to CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY and combines it with CHECKSIGFROMSTACK. Personally, I don't like that TEMPLATEHASH is restricted to taproot and don't see anything wrong with CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY. However, other developers may disagree with me and have different opinion. I have created an IRC channel for workshops, meetings, activation, etc.

We can finalize a meeting schedule so we can use the IRC channel to move closer to covenants activation on bitcoin.

I think BIP 8 would be a better option for the next soft fork. Previously^[4], some suggestions were rejected^[5] because knots was not used by a large number of users. However, things have changed since then and ~15%^[6] of nodes use knots for bitcoin.

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floppy disk guy