From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
To: Justus Ranvier <justus@openbitcoinprivacyproject•org>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] [Bitcoin-development] Reusable payment codes
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 21:22:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151023012248.GD22161@savin.petertodd.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56294E12.60301@openbitcoinprivacyproject.org>
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On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 03:58:58PM -0500, Justus Ranvier via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> On 22/10/15 15:43, Luke Dashjr wrote:
> > BIPs should in general not be
> > designed around current software
>
> I strongly disagree with this statement.
>
> There is a version byte in the payment code specification for a reason.
>
> Version 1 payment codes are designed to be deployable by wallet
> implementers today, without requiring them to wait on any network-level
> changes whatsoever, which includes IsStandard() redefinitions, or
> yet-to-be-invented-and-deployed filtering schemes.
>
> As far as I know, multi-push OP_RETURN outputs are not standard
> transactions and so wallet users can not rely on transactions containing
> them to be relayed through the network, therefore any improvement to the
> protocol which requires that feature is not appropriate for version 1.
FWIW multi-push OP_RETURN outputs will be standard in v0.12.0:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6424
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-23 1:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-22 5:53 Luke Dashjr
2015-10-22 14:55 ` Justus Ranvier
2015-10-22 20:43 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-10-22 20:58 ` Justus Ranvier
2015-10-22 21:47 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-10-22 22:01 ` Justus Ranvier
2015-10-23 1:22 ` Peter Todd [this message]
2015-10-23 15:57 ` Justus Ranvier
2015-10-22 21:05 ` Kristov Atlas
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