THELOGICALINDIAN - Bitcoin Cash BCH developer Mark Lundeberg has appear his new activity a angle of the Electron Cash wallet that performs arguable diminutive swaps amid BCH and BTC On Dec 18 Lundeberg clearly launched the aboriginal abundance of his Openswap belvedere with a video tutorial on how to barter amid two altered cryptocurrencies
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Openswap Version 0.1 Published — Swap BTC & BCH Trustlessly
On Tuesday, the aboriginal adaptation of the Openswap wallet was appear to the accepted public. Speaking with news.Bitcoin.com, BCH developer Mark Lundeberg explained that Openswap adaptation 0.1 was appear for Windows and Linux operating systems. The developer additionally mentioned that an OSX body is on the way. Lundeberg has appear a video demonstration assuming a cross-cryptocurrency bandy amid both cryptocurrencies on Youtube. The programmer performed the barter himself application a BCH wallet alleged ‘Bob’ and BTC wallet called ‘Alice.’ The Bob wallet had an allocated bulk of BCH, while the Alice applicant had some BTC in adjustment to action the trade. In the video, Lundeberg showed how the two parties acquaint with anniversary added via an onchain clandestine messaging feature.
The advice window shows an barter of letters aback and alternating including both parties’ addresses and accessible keys. Behind the scenes of the chat amid Bob and Alice, the letters are application the BCH OP_Return function. The advice is encrypted application a aggregate abstruse alone Alice and Bob authority and at any time they can analysis the bulletin history in adjustment to boldness a dispute. When application the Openswap messaging feature, no one abroad is able to break the letters transferred amid Alice and Bob on the blockchain. In the bulletin window, there is an “offer” button area the being can abstract an action and adduce the barter to the added being in the clandestine conversation.
Lundeberg demonstrates how Alice makes an action for some BCH and the appropriate barter is displayed in Bob’s bulletin window. Now Bob can acquire the proposal, but if he doesn’t like the amount Alice submitted, he can accelerate her a counter-offer. Lundeberg shows how Bob can artlessly adapt the amount of the barter and abide a counter-offer aback to Alice, which will be displayed on her bulletin window. Alice can additionally counter-offer again, avoid Bob’s offer, or acquire it by beat “accept,” which triggers the admission of the diminutive swap.
Alice Must Release the Secret to Bob in Order to Claim Her Funds
While in clandestine conversation, the two parties accept already exchanged abundant acute arrangement advice to accomplish the cross-cryptocurrency trade. Alice can again accelerate her bitcoins to a specific acute arrangement abode and Bob can arrest the accord by not sending any funds into the acute contract, whereupon her funds would be refunded. But if Bob sends his agreed bulk to the arrangement again Alice can redeem her BCH application the secret, but she has to acknowledge the abstruse to Bob, which in about-face unlocks his BTC.
“I’ve been absorbed in diminutive swaps anytime aback I got complex with cryptocurrency (especially BCH) aback in February,” Lundeberg told news.Bitcoin.com. “I started [Openswap] aback in September, and it was basically completed by the end of October — But with all the adamantine angle ball it got put on the aback burner for a while.”
As far as abacus added bill to Openswap, Lundeberg said he was activity to be absorption on added projects for a while and won’t be abacus any added bill appropriate now. “But, cull requests from added developers are welcome,” the programmer stated. Lundeberg said that adaptation 0.1 could be buggy, but he doesn’t anticipate there will be any “money-losing bugs,” admitting still he believes it’s best to comedy safe with a baby atom of funds for now.
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