Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] New standard transaction types: time to schedule a blockchain split?

From: Pieter Wuille <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:06:44 +0200

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 04:29:03PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Pieter Wuille
> <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > Which is 13 bytes + 6*20 bytes, instead of the 54 bytes + 6*20 bytes for the
> > real bitcoin output script.
> 
> So 187 bytes in base-58? I think pretty darn good for a destination
> with 6 keys and complicated rules. I like that a lot.

Some extra estimates:
* single address: 21 bytes (36 characters), 27 bytes script
* 1-out-of-2: 43 bytes (66 characters), 56 bytes script
* 2-out-of-3: 67 bytes (98 characters), 88 bytes script 
* (a and b) or c: 65 bytes (96 characters), 85 bytes script

-- 
Pieter