* [Bitcoin-development] Zero-length scripts
@ 2012-12-12 22:09 Eric Lombrozo
2012-12-13 9:00 ` gronager
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From: Eric Lombrozo @ 2012-12-12 22:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bitcoin Dev
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I've noticed a few transactions that have zero-length input and/or output scripts. There's a couple examples in block 0000000000000159a27442ee8b7f9ffad0cd799b003eafe007de9fbb47bd6ce7:
Txs: cdb553214a51ef8d4393b96a185ebbbc2c84b7014e9497fea8aec1ff990dae35, af32bb06f12f2ae5fdb7face7cd272be67c923e86b7a66a76ded02d954c2f94d
Is there ever a legitimate reason to create a transaction with a zero-length script? Should the protocol even allow it?
-Eric Lombrozo
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* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Zero-length scripts
2012-12-12 22:09 [Bitcoin-development] Zero-length scripts Eric Lombrozo
@ 2012-12-13 9:00 ` gronager
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From: gronager @ 2012-12-13 9:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric Lombrozo; +Cc: Bitcoin Dev
Normally I would consider it an error of the parsing script of blockchain (seen that before), however, this seems genuine enough.
the second transaction is the most amusing - it has an output script which is:
OP_HASH256 000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f OP_EQUAL
The hash is the most famous bitcoin hash... - so if you can come up with something that, when hashed with sha256 yields the genesisblock hash you can claim one BTC ;)
It is actually very easy to do (!), however, it is a game only for miners, as non_standard transactions are not relayed between standard clients. So now a miner can have a go creating a transaction redeeming this 1BTC.
Perhaps, Eligius creating that block, might be playing a little christmas game :)
Cheers,
Michael
On 12/12/2012, at 23:09, Eric Lombrozo <elombrozo@gmail•com> wrote:
> I've noticed a few transactions that have zero-length input and/or output scripts. There's a couple examples in block 0000000000000159a27442ee8b7f9ffad0cd799b003eafe007de9fbb47bd6ce7:
>
> Txs: cdb553214a51ef8d4393b96a185ebbbc2c84b7014e9497fea8aec1ff990dae35, af32bb06f12f2ae5fdb7face7cd272be67c923e86b7a66a76ded02d954c2f94d
>
>
> Is there ever a legitimate reason to create a transaction with a zero-length script? Should the protocol even allow it?
>
> -Eric Lombrozo
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