88 lines
3.8 KiB
Go
88 lines
3.8 KiB
Go
// Copyright (c) 2014 The btcsuite developers
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// Use of this source code is governed by an ISC
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// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
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/*
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Package votingpool provides voting pool functionality for btcwallet.
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Overview
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The purpose of the voting pool package is to make it possible to store
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bitcoins using m-of-n multisig transactions. A pool can have multiple
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series, each of them with a set of pubkeys (one for each of the members
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in that pool's series) and the minimum number of required signatures (m)
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needed to spend the pool's coins. Each member will hold a private key
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matching one of the series' public keys, and at least m members will
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need to be in agreement when spending the pool's coins.
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More details about voting pools as well as some of its use cases can
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be found at http://opentransactions.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Voting_Pools
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This package depends on the waddrmgr and walletdb packages.
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Creating a voting pool
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A voting pool is created via the Create function. This function
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accepts a database namespace which will be used to store all
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information related to that pool under a bucket whose key is the
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pool's ID.
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Loading an existing pool
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An existing voting pool is loaded via the Load function, which accepts
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the database name used when creating the pool as well as the poolID.
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Creating a series
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A series can be created via the CreateSeries method, which accepts a
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version number, a series identifier, a number of required signatures
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(m in m-of-n multisig), and a set of public keys.
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Deposit Addresses
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A deposit address can be created via the DepositScriptAddress
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method, which returns a series-specific P2SH address from the multi-sig
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script constructed with the index-th child of the series' public keys and
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sorted according to the given branch. The procedure to construct multi-sig
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deposit addresses is described in detail at
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http://opentransactions.org/wiki/index.php/Deposit_Address_(voting_pools)
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Replacing a series
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A series can be replaced via the ReplaceSeries method. It accepts
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the same parameters as the CreateSeries method.
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Empowering a series
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For security reasons, most private keys will be maintained offline and
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only brought online when they're needed. In order to bring a key online,
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one must use the EmpowerSeries method, which takes just the series ID
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and a raw private key matching one of the series' public keys.
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Starting withdrawals
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When withdrawing coins from the pool, we employ a deterministic process
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in order to minimise the cost of coordinating transaction signing. For
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this to work, members of the pool have to perform an out-of-band consensus
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process (<http://opentransactions.org/wiki/index.php/Consensus_Process_(voting_pools)>)
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to define the following parameters, that should be passed to the
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StartWithdrawal method:
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roundID: the unique identifier of a given consensus round
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requests: a list with outputs requested by users of the voting pool
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startAddress: the seriesID, branch and indes where we should start looking for inputs
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lastSeriesID: the ID of the last series where we should take inputs from
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changeStart: the first change address to use
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dustThreshold: the minimum amount of satoshis an input needs to be considered eligible
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StartWithdrawal will then select all eligible inputs in the given address
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range (following the algorithim at <http://opentransactions.org/wiki/index.php/Input_Selection_Algorithm_(voting_pools)>)
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and use them to construct transactions (<http://opentransactions.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Transaction_Construction_Algorithm_(voting_pools)>)
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that fulfill the output requests. It returns a WithdrawalStatus containing
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the state of every requested output, the raw signatures for the constructed
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transactions, the network fees included in those transactions and the input
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range to use in the next withdrawal.
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*/
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package votingpool
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