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From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail•com>
To: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail•com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] After compressed pubkeys: hybrid pubkeys
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 19:39:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgT=eLweqpmRGonuvEYfiGi4nbaKh-uw01PKyMC3qyY71A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABsx9T1_R2RE0S=ygY18OyJ0W+Bxyt5Q75bF4J36r0C8ae4-Fw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail•com> wrote:
> RE: 0x06/0x07 'hybrid' public keys:
>
>> Any opinions? Forbidding it certainly makes alternative implementation
>> slightly easier in the future, but I'm not sure the hassle of a network
>> rule change is worth it.
>
> I say treat any transactions that use them as 'non-standard' -- don't
> relay/mine them by default, but accept blocks that happen to contain
> them.
>
> I agree that a rule change isn't worth it right now, but making them
> non-standard now is easy and should make a rule change in the future
> easier.

ACK.  Hopefully no one will mine these before we can merge denying
them into another rule change. But if they do, oh well.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-16 23:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-16 19:26 Pieter Wuille
2012-06-16 21:41 ` Gavin Andresen
2012-06-16 23:39   ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2012-06-17  1:15     ` Luke-Jr
2012-06-17 11:01 ` Mike Hearn
2012-06-17 12:04   ` Pieter Wuille
2012-06-17 15:16     ` Wladimir

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