From: Wladimir <laanwj@gmail•com>
To: Flavien Charlon <flavien.charlon@coinprism•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Increasing the OP_RETURN maximum payload size
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:30:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+s+GJAW+dKytucOCyR6-=wfUP_im9cZJaGu8nuhp8vGYX8Qdw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABbpET9eTgk1GyxYbcG++O_rqsnfB7w5_Xp4XgE6qwkmGsm1eg@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Flavien Charlon
<flavien.charlon@coinprism•com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The data that can be embedded as part of an OP_RETURN output is currently
> limited to 40 bytes. It was initially supposed to be 80 bytes, but got
> reduced to 40 before the 0.9 release to err on the side of caution.
>
> After 9 months, it seems OP_RETURN did not lead to a blockchain catastrophe,
Agreed. I'm in favor of increasing OP_RETURN size as well. Don't care
about the actual size.
(rationale: pruning is going to land soonish, and everything is better
than UTXO-polluting methods that encode everything into addresses such
as now used by cryptograffiti)
Wladimir
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-17 10:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-16 16:21 Flavien Charlon
2014-11-16 17:24 ` Luke Dashjr
2014-11-16 18:44 ` Jorge Timón
2014-11-16 19:04 ` Jorge Timón
2014-11-17 3:19 ` Alan Reiner
2014-11-17 10:35 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-11-17 11:20 ` Adam Back
2014-11-17 12:31 ` Chris Pacia
2014-11-17 12:39 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-11-18 22:33 ` Chris Pacia
2014-11-17 11:43 ` Flavien Charlon
2014-11-17 12:00 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-11-17 12:22 ` Jorge Timón
2014-11-18 17:47 ` Btc Drak
2014-11-19 0:46 ` Flavien Charlon
2014-11-17 10:30 ` Wladimir [this message]
2014-11-20 23:39 ` Jean-Pierre Rupp
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