Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Proposed Extensions to BIP 174 for Future Extensibility

From: jan matejek <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 16:32:00 +0200

hello,

On 31. 07. 19 3:13, Andrew Chow via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Lastly, I would like to propose the canonical method for mult-byte
> types. We designate a specific type to indicate that the type is
> multiple bytes. When such types are observed, parsers should move onto
> the next byte and interpret that as the type, keeping in mind the number
> of bytes that were read in for the type.

why not use Bitcoin compact uint, which most PSBT consumers already
implement?

regards
m.