
SLP476 What is FROST? Is it the future of Bitcoin Multisig? with Nick Farrow
Stephan Livera Podcast
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The Downsides of Using Frost
Frost alone has actually worse accountability so you can't sort of say oh i know you signed and you signed right because it's it's very private. In some settings we believe there is some modifications you make to frost to make it more accountable to those within the multi-seag while it's still appearing highly private to outsiders. Frost in its name is flexible round optimized shnoor threshold signatures, which means that you can do frost signing in a single round with some conditions. There are other complexities with running frost because it is entirely this off-chain protocol done with mathematicsYou have to there's a bit more communication involved when using frost.
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