From: William Casarin <jb55@jb55•com>
To: Mike Brooks <m@ib•tc>, bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] PubRef - Script OP Code For Public Data References
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 08:17:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h87idpfh.fsf@jb55.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALFqKjQkQwuxjeYkGWO_Y_HhNQmJgrjqF3m04hbORV7FSbsi3Q@mail.gmail.com>
Hello Mike,
Mike Brooks via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
writes:
> Motivation
>
> Giving scripts the ability to refer to data on the blockchain will reduce
> transaction sizes because key material does not have to be repeated in
> every Script. Users of the network are rewarded with smaller transaction
> sizes, and miners are able to fit more transactions into new blocks.
> Pointers are a common feature and it felt like this was missing from
> Bitcoin Script.
This would incentivize address re-use which would be bad for
fungibility. It appears you're trying to optimize a use case which is
already discouraged :(
Cheers,
Will
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https://jb55.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-19 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-19 6:05 Mike Brooks
2019-07-19 15:17 ` William Casarin [this message]
2019-07-19 19:17 ` Pieter Wuille
2019-07-19 17:45 ` Yuval Kogman
[not found] ` <CALFqKjTHT7XaREK7ewwKKBjrZcty7ueNBMtSLEW7B-o9uwXgmw@mail.gmail.com>
2019-07-19 22:48 ` Yuval Kogman
2019-07-24 19:49 ` Mike Brooks
2019-07-19 18:07 ` ZmnSCPxj
2019-07-27 20:03 ` Mike Brooks
2019-07-29 1:46 ` ZmnSCPxj
2019-07-29 2:19 ` Mike Brooks
2019-07-29 2:49 ` ZmnSCPxj
2019-07-29 3:07 ` Mike Brooks
2019-07-29 3:39 ` ZmnSCPxj
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