From: Mark Friedenbach <mark@friedenbach•org>
To: Justus Ranvier <justus@openbitcoinprivacyproject•org>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Capacity increases for the Bitcoin system.
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 01:41:23 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOG=w-vW36Q5_NMqzZsBgc-p7QEDEYp9OtLkg5tzbAN0YRXFUA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5666FD8D.8050201@openbitcoinprivacyproject.org>
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A far better place than the generation transaction (which I assume means
coinbase transaction?) is the last transaction in the block. That allows
you to save, on average, half of the hashes in the Merkle tree.
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 11:55 PM, Justus Ranvier via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On 12/08/2015 09:12 AM, Gavin Andresen via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> > Stuffing the segwitness merkle tree in the coinbase
>
> If such a change is going to be deployed via a soft fork instead of a
> hard fork, then the coinbase is the worst place to put the segwitness
> merkle root.
>
> Instead, put it in the first output of the generation transaction as an
> OP_RETURN script.
>
> This is a better pattern because coinbase space is limited while output
> space is not. The next time there's a good reason to tie another merkle
> tree to a block, that proposal can be designated for the second output
> of the generation transaction.
>
>
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Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-07 22:02 Gregory Maxwell
2015-12-07 22:54 ` Bryan Bishop
2015-12-08 2:42 ` Anthony Towns
2015-12-08 4:58 ` Anthony Towns
2015-12-08 5:21 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-12-08 6:54 ` Anthony Towns
2016-01-18 12:02 ` Anthony Towns
2016-01-22 9:46 ` Anthony Towns
2015-12-08 11:07 ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-12-08 11:14 ` Jorge Timón
2015-12-08 15:12 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-12-08 15:55 ` Justus Ranvier
2015-12-08 17:41 ` Mark Friedenbach [this message]
2015-12-08 18:43 ` Justus Ranvier
2015-12-08 19:08 ` Tier Nolan
2015-12-08 19:31 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-12-08 23:40 ` Jonathan Toomim
2015-12-08 23:48 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-12-09 0:54 ` Jonathan Toomim
2015-12-08 23:50 ` Jorge Timón
2015-12-09 0:56 ` Jonathan Toomim
2015-12-08 23:59 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-12-09 0:58 ` Jorge Timón
2015-12-09 1:02 ` Jorge Timón
2015-12-09 1:09 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-12-09 1:31 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-12-09 4:44 ` Ryan Butler
2015-12-09 6:29 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-12-09 6:36 ` Ryan Butler
2015-12-09 6:59 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-12-09 7:17 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-12-09 7:54 ` Jorge Timón
2015-12-09 8:03 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-12-09 8:46 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-12-09 11:08 ` Jorge Timón
2015-12-09 16:40 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-12-11 16:18 ` Jorge Timón
2015-12-11 16:43 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-12-12 5:13 ` digitsu
2015-12-12 15:18 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-12-14 11:21 ` Jonathan Toomim
2015-12-14 12:44 ` Adam Back
2015-12-09 4:51 ` Anthony Towns
2015-12-09 14:51 ` Chris
[not found] ` <CAPWm=eUomq6SBC0ky0WSs5=_G942vigm4RmgYuq0O-yJ-vqC2A@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <CAPg+sBig9O5+he0PWhTkX5iin14QLz5+eCCu6KfwU=DxntKYtg@mail.gmail.com>
2015-12-21 4:33 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-12-21 4:42 ` Justus Ranvier
2015-12-21 4:44 ` Alex Morcos
2015-12-21 4:50 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-12-21 5:29 ` Douglas Roark
2015-12-21 5:21 ` Btc Drak
2015-12-21 8:07 ` Anthony Towns
2015-12-21 9:56 ` Jorge Timón
2015-12-08 23:48 ` Jonathan Toomim
2015-12-09 0:23 ` Gregory Maxwell
[not found] ` <CAAS2fgRP8bLWZoKR9-iJS-2RKTGQQ9NG-LpAfa2BOdcR=GuB_A@mail.gmail.com>
2015-12-09 0:40 ` Jonathan Toomim
2015-12-09 12:28 Daniele Pinna
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