Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Congestion Control via OP_CHECKOUTPUTSHASHVERIFY proposal

From: Matt Corallo <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 19:41:22 +0000

If we're going to do covenants (and I think we should), then I think we
need to have a flexible solution that provides more features than just
this, or we risk adding it only to go through all the effort again when
people ask for a better solution.

Matt

On 5/20/19 8:58 PM, Jeremy via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Hello bitcoin-devs,
> 
> Below is a link to a BIP Draft for a new opcode,
> OP_CHECKOUTPUTSHASHVERIFY. This opcode enables an easy-to-use trustless
> congestion control techniques via a rudimentary, limited form of
> covenant which does not bear the same technical and social risks of
> prior covenant designs.
> 
> Congestion control allows Bitcoin users to confirm payments to many
> users in a single transaction without creating the UTXO on-chain until a
> later time. This therefore improves the throughput of confirmed
> payments, at the expense of latency on spendability and increased
> average block space utilization. The BIP covers this use case in detail,
> and a few other use cases lightly.
> 
> The BIP draft is here:
> https://github.com/JeremyRubin/bips/blob/op-checkoutputshashverify/bip-coshv.mediawiki
> 
> The BIP proposes to deploy the change simultaneously with Taproot as an
> OPSUCCESS, but it could be deployed separately if needed.
> 
> An initial reference implementation of the consensus changes and  tests
> which demonstrate how to use it for basic congestion control is
> available at
> https://github.com/JeremyRubin/bitcoin/tree/congestion-control.  The
> changes are about 74 lines of code on top of sipa's Taproot reference
> implementation.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Jeremy Rubin
> 
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