Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] SF proposal: prohibit unspendable outputs with amount=0

From: Tier Nolan <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 23:20:02 +0100

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:51 PM, Jorge Timón via bitcoin-dev <
[email-masked]> wrote:

> Is there any reason or use case to keep allowing spendable outputs
> with null amounts in them?
>

Someone could have created a timelocked transaction that depends on a zero
value output.

This could be protected by requiring a tx version number change.  Only zero
outputs in the new version would be affected.

I am not sure how strictly people are sticking to that rule though.