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From: Bram Cohen <bram@chia•net>
To: Anthony Towns <aj@erisian•com.au>
Cc: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] bitcoin scripting and lisp
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 23:45:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHUJnBDX5_HkocD4DMT05g59aWyrYMt=dDEBS_3hraJMoVOSXA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220310064717.GA7597@erisian.com.au>

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On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 10:47 PM Anthony Towns <aj@erisian•com.au> wrote:

>
> To redo the singleton pattern in bitcoin's context, I think you'd have
> to pass in both the full tx you're spending (to be able to get the
> txid of its parent) and the full tx of its parent (to be able to get
> the scriptPubKey that your utxo spent) which seems klunky but at least
> possible (you'd be able to drop the witness data at least; without that
> every tx would be including the entire history of the singleton).
>

Yes that's the idea. Since the parent transaction is in the blockchain it
could be pulled in automatically without having to charge vbytes for it.


> If softfork is just doing a best effort for whatever opcodes it knows
> about, and otherwise succeeding, then it has to succeed, and your
> script/output has become anyone-can-spend.
>

That can be alleviated by when things call untrusted code they can wrap it
in a guard which can be the soft fork opcode itself.


>
> On the other hand, if you could tell the softfork op that you only wanted
> ops up-to-and-including the 118 softfork, then it could reject fakeopcode
> and fail the script, which I think gives the desirable behaviour.
>

A simple approach to versioning like that may be more expedient. Soft
forking in CLVM isn't implemented yet.

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-16  6:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.30513.1646355894.8511.bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
2022-03-07  6:26 ` Bram Cohen
2022-03-07 22:56   ` ZmnSCPxj
2022-03-09  2:24     ` Bram Cohen
2022-03-08  1:27   ` Anthony Towns
2022-03-08  3:06     ` ZmnSCPxj
2022-03-09  3:07       ` Bram Cohen
2022-03-09 14:30         ` ZmnSCPxj
2022-03-16  6:40           ` Bram Cohen
2022-03-16 15:09             ` ZmnSCPxj
2022-03-11  4:46       ` Anthony Towns
2022-03-16  6:52         ` Bram Cohen
2022-03-16 14:54         ` ZmnSCPxj
2022-03-19 17:34           ` Bram Cohen
2022-03-22 23:37           ` Anthony Towns
2022-03-09  2:54     ` Bram Cohen
2022-03-10  6:47       ` Anthony Towns
2022-03-16  6:45         ` Bram Cohen [this message]
2022-03-04  1:04 Anthony Towns
2022-03-04 23:10 ` ZmnSCPxj
     [not found]   ` <CAD5xwhiZx+dp46Gn23tQRKc5PgJHmaJ_HC-38VB5WdJjWVVc4g@mail.gmail.com>
2022-03-05 13:41     ` Jeremy Rubin
2022-03-05 20:10       ` Russell O'Connor
2022-03-05 23:20         ` ZmnSCPxj
2022-03-06  2:09           ` Russell O'Connor

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