Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: soft-fork to make anyone-can-spend outputs unspendable for 100 blocks

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 10:12:44 -0400

On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Adam Back <[email-masked]> wrote:
> d) some new standardized spend to fees (only miners can claim).

> so if I understand what you proposed d) seems like a useful concept if that
> is not currently possible.  eg alternatively could we not just propose a
> standard recognized address that clearly no-one knows the EC discrete log
> of?

I'm one of the people experimenting in this area.  I've long argued
that a zero-output transaction should be permitted -- 100% miner fee
-- as an elegant proof of sacrifice.  Unfortunately that requires a
hard fork.  Also, for most people, it seems likely that a change
transaction would be generated.  That, then, would generate an
already-standard transaction, where inputs > outputs.

-- 
Jeff Garzik
Senior Software Engineer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc.      https://bitpay.com/