Proposing: Softfork to after (n) block height; the creation of outpoints with greater than 520 bytes in the ScriptPubkey would be consensus invalid. <br /><br />This is my gathering of information per BIP 0002<br /><br />After doing some research into the number of outpoints that would have violated the proposed rule there are exactly 169 outpoints. With only 8 being non OP_RETURN. I think after 15 years and not having discovered use for 'large' ScriptPubkeys; the reward for not invalidating them at the consensus level is lower than the risk of their abuse. <br /><ul><li><b>Reasons for<br /></b><ul><li>Makes DoS blocks likely impossible to create that would have any sufficient negative impact on the network.</li><li>Leaves enough room for hooks long term<br /></li><li>Would substantially reduce the divergence between consensus  and relay policy</li><li>Incredibly little use onchain as evidenced above.</li><li>Could possibly reduce codebase complexity. Legacy Script is largely considered a mess though this isn't a complete disablement it should reduce the total surface that is problematic.</li><li>Would make it harder to use the ScriptPubkey as a 'large' datacarrier.</li><li>Possible UTXO set size bloat reduction.<br /><br /></li></ul></li><li><b>Reasons Against </b><ul><li>Bitcoin could need it in the future? Quantum?<br /></li><li>Users could just create more outpoints.</li></ul></li></ul>Thoughts?<br /><br /><a href="https://github.com/portlandhodl/portlandhodl/blob/main/greater_520_pubkeys.csv">source of onchain data </a><br /><br />PortlandHODL<br /><br />

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