From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay•com>
To: Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo•com>
Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net"
<bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] New Output Script Type
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 21:10:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJHLa0Px3bj7RAyQ6EytGEoN0D8vSPRtYQ42NOR_jyKJ71GoUQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1379119871.76503.YahooMailNeo@web162705.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
See https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2738
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo•com> wrote:
> http://www.proofofexistence.com/
>
> and
>
> https://github.com/spesmilo/sx/blob/master/src/sx-embed-addr
>
> Embedding data in the blockchain as a hash is out there and a reality.
>
> I suggest that there should be a new payment type that is unspendable to
> support this.
> Like you have pubkey_hash, pubkey, script_hash, ..., "embed_hash"
>
> Maybe just a script with a single 20 byte push data.
>
> Advantages:
>
> * Optimisation possibilities (you know this can't be spent, and the script
> can't be processed).
> * Avoid indexing in an address database Bitcoin addresses which are
> currently being
> used to index data. They will never be spent, yet they will be indexed
> because they look
> identical to normal Bitcoin addresses.
>
> By separating this class of Bitcoin usage, we can improve the core Bitcoin
> payments system.
>
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Jeff Garzik
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-14 1:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-14 0:51 Turkey Breast
2013-09-14 1:00 ` Mark Friedenbach
2013-09-14 1:10 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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