From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr•org>
To: Toby Padilla <tobypadilla@gmail•com>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP Draft] Allow zero value OP_RETURN in Payment Protocol
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 03:04:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201601260304.34013.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGcHOzwpcCdgJ1VcBrnZ+D8dfZFBJYLs_A9Z4Nz-FJokdkcuyQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tuesday, January 26, 2016 3:01:13 AM Toby Padilla wrote:
> > As I explained, none of those reasons apply to PaymentRequests.
>
> As they exist today PaymentRequests allow for essentially the same types of
> transactions as non-PaymentRequest based transactions with the limitation
> that OP_RETURN values must be greater. In that sense they're basically a
> pre-OP_RETURN environment. OP_RETURN serves a purpose and it can't be used
> with PaymentRequest transactions.
OP_RETURN can be used, but you need to burn coins. I don't see any benefit to
changing that. It is better that coins are burned.
> > I have no idea what you are trying to say here.
>
> I think if you think through how you would create an OP_RETURN transaction
> today without this BIP you'll see you need a key at some point if you want
> a zero value.
You *always* need a key, to redeem inputs... regardless of values.
Luke
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-26 3:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-26 1:02 Toby Padilla
2016-01-26 2:24 ` Luke Dashjr
2016-01-26 2:54 ` Toby Padilla
2016-01-26 2:56 ` Luke Dashjr
2016-01-26 3:01 ` Toby Padilla
2016-01-26 3:04 ` Luke Dashjr [this message]
2016-01-26 3:07 ` Toby Padilla
2016-01-26 3:12 ` Luke Dashjr
2016-01-26 3:17 ` Toby Padilla
2016-01-26 3:23 ` Luke Dashjr
2016-01-26 3:30 ` Toby Padilla
2016-01-26 16:19 ` Thomas Kerin
2016-01-26 17:44 ` Toby Padilla
2016-02-02 17:03 ` Peter Todd
2016-02-02 17:16 ` Pieter Wuille
2016-02-02 17:27 ` Toby Padilla
2016-02-02 17:38 ` Peter Todd
2016-02-02 17:41 ` Toby Padilla
2016-02-02 19:12 ` Peter Todd
2016-02-02 19:22 ` Toby Padilla
2016-02-02 19:14 ` Luke Dashjr
2016-01-26 14:37 ` Andreas Schildbach
2016-01-26 17:41 ` Toby Padilla
2016-02-02 17:07 ` Peter Todd
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