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From: "Russell O'Connor" <roconnor@blockstream•io>
To: Johnson Lau <jl2012@xbt•hk>
Cc: bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Implementing Covenants with OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACKVERIFY
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 00:19:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMZUoKmnkk=q7GkkvA+Q4-r64JCQ+kPRPdoEN8bnAwd2YGMH+Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E8BB95A5-09B3-443C-B197-29DA3C4767D8@xbt.hk>

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Right.  There are minor trade-offs to be made with regards to that design
point of OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACKVERIFY.  Fortunately this covenant
construction isn't sensitive to that choice and can be made to work with
either implementation of OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACKVERIFY.

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 11:35 PM, Johnson Lau <jl2012@xbt•hk> wrote:

> Interesting. I have implemented OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACKVERIFY in a different
> way from the Elements. Instead of hashing the data on stack, I directly put
> the 32 byte hash to the stack. This should be more flexible as not every
> system are using double-SHA256
>
> https://github.com/jl2012/bitcoin/commits/mast_v3_master
>
>
> On 3 Nov 2016, at 01:30, Russell O'Connor via bitcoin-dev <
> bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> It is possible to implement covenants using two script extensions: OP_CAT
> and OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACKVERIFY.  Both of these op codes are already
> available in the Elements Alpha sidechain, so it is possible to construct
> covenants in Elements Alpha today.  I have detailed how the construction
> works in a blog post at <https://blockstream.com/2016/
> 11/02/covenants-in-elements-alpha.html>.  As an example, I've constructed
> scripts for the Moeser-Eyal-Sirer vault.
>
> I'm interested in collecting and implementing other useful covenants, so
> if people have ideas, please post them.
>
> If there are any questions, I'd be happy to answer.
>
> --
> Russell O'Connor
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>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-03  4:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-02 17:30 Russell O'Connor
2016-11-03  3:35 ` Johnson Lau
     [not found] ` <E8BB95A5-09B3-443C-B197-29DA3C4767D8@xbt.hk>
2016-11-03  4:19   ` Russell O'Connor [this message]
2016-11-03  7:37     ` Daniel Robinson
2016-11-03 20:02       ` Russell O'Connor
2016-11-04 14:35       ` Tim Ruffing
2016-11-07 19:30         ` Jeremy
2016-11-03 17:42 ` Ryan Grant

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