Bitcoin/Dogecoin cross-chain transactions

[dataispower]

The new altcoins have been hogging all the fun new toys, and it's time we showed you can teach an old(ish) doge new tricks... CATE (Cross-chain Atomic Trading Engine) is a bridging application that sits between any two Bitcoin Core 0.9+ derived clients (although only tested with Bitcoin and Dogecoin so far) and enables transactions between the two blockchains.

Testing is ongoing, and right now it's really only intended for developer use/experiments, but the basics all work, and you can see the code right now at https://github.com/rnicoll/cate Immediate priorities are improved documentation, further testing (especially AuxPoW blocks), producing a specific intermediary library to add altcoin support to python-bitcoinlib (instead of just using a fork of that library), and giving it a half-decent UI, but the code's far enough along for others to start poking at it now. You can read up on the theory of how this works at

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Atomic_cross-chain_trading


ROSS NICOLL bio:

Ross Nicoll is one of the lead technical volunteers on the Dogecoin
protocol, reference client, and various other client and server
applications which use the Dogecoin blockchain. He has been involved in
cryptocurrencies since 2011, and joined the Dogecoin team in early 2014
to help redevelop Dogecoin based on the Bitcoin Core software. He
frequently writes columns for the Dogecoin community, and more recently
has also worked on Dogecoin support for Toshi.

Ross has a background in academic research, and is a part-time PhD
candidate with the University of St Andrews looking at approaches to use
of technology to reduce overheads in higher education. He has a broad
and varied background including distributed computing, Forex analysis,

http://bitcoinexpo2015.com/ross-nicoll/

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