Drivechain with and without BIP 300/301

Protocol Design
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Paul has described the process in this podcast: The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #39 Paul Sztorc by The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba

It uses 2 tools:

  1. Monitor scans blocks and see if any block breaks BIP 300 rules
  2. Enforcer uses invalidateblock RPC to reject blocks

It can be considered an external way to do user activated soft fork without preparing a UASF client by forking bitcoin core.

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