Subject: Re: [bitcoindev] Relax OP_RETURN standardness restrictions

From: Nagaev Boris <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:37:29 -0300

On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM Sjors Provoost <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > If that wasn't bad enough, exploiters get a 75% discount on transaction fees.
>
> At the time SegWit was proposed it was clear that the worst case block size would increase to 4 MB. It took a few years for people to figure out how to take advantage of that. Somewhere between 2015 and early 2017 would have been good time to object to the SegWit discount, but removing it now would be a hard fork. Fwiw I think the discount was a good idea.

Can you elaborate on why removing the SegWit discount now would be a
hard fork, please? This would be a tightening of consensus rules -
blocks that are valid under the current rules become invalid under new
rules, but not vice versa.

(I'm not proposing this, just a technical question.)

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Best regards,
Boris Nagaev

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