Subject: [bitcoin-dev] Implementing Confidential Transactions in extension blocks

From: "Kenshiro []" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 10:12:06 +0000

Greetings,

What do you think about implementing Confidential Transactions in extension blocks? CT transactions go from extension block to extension block passing through normal blocks. It looks the perfect solution:

- Soft fork: old nodes see CT transactions as "sendtoany" transactions
- Safe: if there is a software bug in CT it's impossible to create new coins because the coins move from normal block to normal block as public transactions
- Legal: Exchanges can use public transactions so regulators can monitor their activity
- Capacity increase: the CT signature is stored in the extension block, so CT transactions increase the maximum number of transactions per block

Regards