From: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail•com>
To: Tier Nolan <tier.nolan@gmail•com>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP: Short Term Use Addresses for Scalability
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 17:06:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABsx9T21i_onZcj=zcY=rvbxQtVUh=cW-TYxYNqwxcFxA5hKvQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE-z3OWgdDiFNgKd8D_pPyV6ZdPdUjdFwL7eMQzjAL_xfn+ZUg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Tier Nolan via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> It also requires most clients to be updated to support the new address
> system.
That's the killer: introducing Yet Another Type of Bitcoin Address takes a
very long time and requires a lot of people to change their code. At least,
that was the lesson learned when we introduced P2SH addresses.
I think it's just not worth it for a very modest space savings (10 bytes,
when scriptSig+scriptPubKey is about 120 bytes), especially with the
extreme decrease in security (going from 2^160 to 2^80 to brute-force).
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Gavin Andresen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-22 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-22 20:15 Jeremy Rubin
2015-07-22 20:34 ` Tier Nolan
2015-07-22 21:06 ` Gavin Andresen [this message]
2015-07-23 4:05 ` Jeremy Rubin
2015-07-23 4:55 ` jl2012
2015-07-23 6:05 ` Jeremy Rubin
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