Merged Mining and Decentralization Incentives
A new article by RootstockLabs discusses how merged mining can support Bitcoin decentralization through improved incentive design. It also mentions a BitVM/BitVMX-based alternative for coordinating Blind Merged Mining without requiring a Bitcoin soft fork.
rootstocklabs.com/blog
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Rootstock and the Case for Decentralization-Positive Sidechains
If miners can operate light clients instead of full nodes, the required resources drop significantly. This enables a broader set of participants—including small-scale and embedded systems—to engage in merged mining.