From: Mark Friedenbach <mark@monetize•io>
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] New Output Script Type
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 18:00:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5233B513.3020900@monetize.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1379119871.76503.YahooMailNeo@web162705.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
Prefix the script with OP_RETURN. Otherwise you are still contributing
to blockchain bloat.
Mark
On 9/13/13 5:51 PM, Turkey Breast wrote:
> http://www.proofofexistence.com/
>
> and
>
> https://github.com/spesmilo/sx/blob/master/src/sx-embed-addr
>
> Embedding data in the blockchain as a hash is out there and a reality.
>
> I suggest that there should be a new payment type that is unspendable to
> support this.
> Like you have pubkey_hash, pubkey, script_hash, ..., "embed_hash"
>
> Maybe just a script with a single 20 byte push data.
>
> Advantages:
>
> * Optimisation possibilities (you know this can't be spent, and the
> script can't be processed).
> * Avoid indexing in an address database Bitcoin addresses which are
> currently being
> used to index data. They will never be spent, yet they will be indexed
> because they look
> identical to normal Bitcoin addresses.
>
> By separating this class of Bitcoin usage, we can improve the core
> Bitcoin payments system.
>
>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-14 0:51 Turkey Breast
2013-09-14 1:00 ` Mark Friedenbach [this message]
2013-09-14 1:10 ` Jeff Garzik
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