Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] ANYPREVOUT in place of CTV

From: Nadav Ivgi <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 19:57:48 +0300

darosior via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> i doubt CTV is necessary nor sufficient for this

I would be interested to hear more on this.

Is it not necessary because you can exchange and store pre-signed
transactions instead?

What purpose is it not sufficient for? There are some vault designs out
there that are able to achieve interesting properties with CTV, like James
O'Beirne's simple-ctv-vault:

https://github.com/jamesob/simple-ctv-vault
(the basic design expressed in Minsc:
https://min.sc/nextc/#gist=001cf1fcb0e24ca9f3614c4db9bfe57d:4)

On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 2:23 PM darosior via bitcoin-dev <
[email-masked]> wrote:

> I would like to know people's sentiment about doing (a very slightly
> tweaked version of) BIP118 in place of
> (or before doing) BIP119.
>
> SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT and its precedent iterations have been discussed for
> over 6 years. It presents proven and
> implemented usecases, that are demanded and (please someone correct me if
> i'm wrong) more widely accepted than
> CTV's.
>
> SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUTANYSCRIPT, if its "ANYONECANPAY" behaviour is made
> optional [0], can emulate CTV just fine.
> Sure then you can't have bare or Segwit v0 CTV, and it's a bit more
> expensive to use. But we can consider CTV
> an optimization of APO-AS covenants.
>
> CTV advocates have been presenting vaults as the flagship usecase.
> Although as someone who've been trying to
> implement practical vaults for the past 2 years i doubt CTV is necessary
> nor sufficient for this (but still
> useful!), using APO-AS covers it. And it's not a couple dozen more virtual
> bytes that are going to matter for
> a potential vault user.
>
> If after some time all of us who are currently dubious about CTV's stated
> usecases are proven wrong by onchain
> usage of a less efficient construction to achieve the same goal, we could
> roll-out CTV as an optimization.  In
> the meantime others will have been able to deploy new applications
> leveraging ANYPREVOUT (Eltoo, blind
> statechains, etc..[1]).
>
>
> Given the interest in, and demand for, both simple covenants and better
> offchain protocols it seems to me that
> BIP118 is a soft fork candidate that could benefit more (if not most of)
> Bitcoin users.
> Actually i'd also be interested in knowing if people would oppose the
> APO-AS part of BIP118, since it enables
> CTV's features, for the same reason they'd oppose BIP119.
>
>
> [0] That is, to not commit to the other inputs of the transaction (via
> `sha_sequences` and maybe also
> `sha_amounts`). Cf
> https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0118.mediawiki#signature-message
> .
>
> [1] https://anyprevout.xyz/ "Use Cases" section
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