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From: John Dillon <john.dillon892@googlemail•com>
To: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: Vote on the blocksize limit with proof-of-stake voting
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:28:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPaL=UX1npMenVW64_SqF77JSP6T5doQ_e2hOAnshb4ts_0RxQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130610174306.GA16549@petertodd.org>

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On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 01:25:05PM -0400, Alan Reiner wrote:
>> to sign votes.  Not only that, but it would require them to reveal their
>> public key, which while isn't technically so terrible, large amounts of
>> money intended to be kept in storage for 10+ years will prefer to avoid
>> any exposure at all, in the oft-chance that QCs come around a lot
>> earlier than we expected.  Sure, the actual risk should be pretty much
>> non-existent, but some of the most paranoid folks are probably the same
>> ones who have a lot of funds and want 100.00% of the security that is
>> possible.   They will see this as wildly inconvenient.
>
> Solving that problem is pretty easy actually: just add a voting only
> public key to your outputs. Specifically you would have an opcode called
> something like "OP_VOTE" and put a code-path in your script that only
> executes for that specific key.

Rather than "OP_VOTE" all you really need is the "spending tx matches a
template" functionality that has been proposed for many other things.
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-15 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-10  4:09 John Dillon
     [not found] ` <CAFBxzACPpLd1gmoAzxviU2rLPry=cGNQhEZvYV=q_PLRQQ5wXw@mail.gmail.com>
2013-06-10  4:59   ` John Dillon
2013-06-10  5:30 ` Peter Todd
2013-06-10  6:34   ` Daniel Lidstrom
2013-06-10  8:14 ` Melvin Carvalho
2013-06-10  8:26   ` John Dillon
2013-06-10  8:39     ` Melvin Carvalho
2013-06-10  8:35   ` Pieter Wuille
2013-06-10 12:30     ` Melvin Carvalho
2013-06-10 16:46 ` Mark Friedenbach
2013-06-10 17:25   ` Alan Reiner
2013-06-10 17:43     ` Peter Todd
2013-06-15 18:28       ` John Dillon [this message]
2013-06-22 12:05 ` Melvin Carvalho
2013-06-28 10:25   ` John Dillon

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