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IIRC it ultimately went with the fork, and never got real traction past the press release there either. And it was surrounded with controversy and toxicity. Perhaps the OP execution is a safer path with a higher chance of success.

I always wondered why nobody followed up on it.

sedited

Lots of dead links nowadays. But it was cool.

I didn't know about this. Looks like a fun rabbit hole.

Scoresby

Had not heard of this. The idea of pledging a specific utxo instead of an amount of bitcoin is neat from a fee standpoint too.

jasonb

 where you could pledge UTXOs and then everyone could shame you if you spent the coin you pledged?

But it ran on BitcoinJ w/ SPV so then we suddenly needed 

bitcoin

nostr

devs

lightning

YOU will build the roads.

Remember [Hearn's Lighthouse project](https://web.archive.org/web/20140519154716/http://blog.vinumeris.com/2014/05/17/lighthouse/)[^1] where you could pledge UTXOs and then everyone could shame you if you spent the coin you pledged?

But it ran on BitcoinJ w/ SPV so then we suddenly needed [BIP-64/`getutxo`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0064.mediawiki).

[^1]: [tor link in case anyone else has issues with wayback](https://web.archivep75mbjunhxc6x4j5mwjmomyxb573v42baldlqu56ruil2oiad.onion/web/20140519154716/http://blog.vinumeris.com/2014/05/17/lighthouse/)