On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 09:07:16PM -0500, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > > On January 31, 2023 7:46:32 PM EST, Christopher Allen via bitcoin-dev wrote: > >All other things being equal, which is better if you need to place a > >64-bytes into the Bitcoin blockchain? A traditional OP_RETURN or a spent > >taproot transaction such as: > > > >OP_FALSE > >OP_IF > >OP_PUSH my64bytes > >OP_ENDIF > > What's wrong with OpPush OpDrop? > This is a technical nit, but the reason is that is limited to 520 bytes (and I believe, 80 bytes by standardness in Taproot), so if you are pushing a ton of data and need multiple pushes, it's more efficient to use FALSE IF ... ENDIF since you avoid the repeated DROPs. -- Andrew Poelstra Director of Research, Blockstream Email: apoelstra at wpsoftware.net Web: https://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew The sun is always shining in space -Justin Lewis-Webster