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From: Tom <tomz@freedommail.ch>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Requesting BIP assignment; Flexible Transactions.
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 15:17:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <34304783.iUnM6JERa9@kiwi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160923114236.GA17871@nex>

On Friday, 23 September 2016 13:42:36 CEST Christian Decker via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> > I have to disagree. That is not malleability. Creating a new document
> > and re- signing it is not changing anything. Its re-creating.
> > Something that the owner of the coin has every right to do.
> Same thing I was arguing back then, however Luke pointed out that
> malleability just refers to the possibility of modifying a transaction
> after the fact.

I am not a fan of redefining dictionary words. I'll stick to the 
universally excepted one, thanks.

> Nope, that is exactly the kind of dependency I was talking
> about. Instead of nesting a construct like the current transactions
> do, you rely on the order of tokens to imply that they belong
> together.


> if we
> add new fields that a non-upgraded node doesn't know about and it
> rejects transactions containing it, we'll have a hard-fork. It should
> probably not reject transactions with unknown fields if the
> transaction is included in a block.

This is addressed here;
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0134.mediawiki#future-extensibility



  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-23 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-20 17:15 [bitcoin-dev] Requesting BIP assignment; Flexible Transactions Tom
2016-09-20 21:31 ` Luke Dashjr
2016-09-21  9:32   ` Tom
2016-09-20 21:56 ` Peter Todd
2016-09-21  9:32   ` Tom
2016-09-22 18:26     ` Peter Todd
2016-09-22 18:47       ` Tom
2016-09-21 12:00 ` Andreas Schildbach
2016-09-21 12:58   ` Tom
     [not found] ` <CAAS2fgSpnshZhS7N5R3Qsw_8=NN8sjYGwrnUpdwGzu2TG0-Qgw@mail.gmail.com>
2016-09-21 18:01   ` Gregory Maxwell
2016-09-22  8:56     ` Tom
2016-09-22 11:10       ` Christian Decker
2016-09-22 12:09         ` Tom
2016-09-23 11:42           ` Christian Decker
2016-09-23 13:17             ` Tom [this message]
2016-09-21 22:45 adiabat
2016-09-22  8:47 ` Tom
2016-09-22 18:27   ` Peter Todd
2016-09-22 18:37     ` Tom
2016-09-22 19:59       ` Jonas Schnelli
2016-09-22 20:07         ` Tom
2016-09-23 11:55       ` Christian Decker
2016-09-23 13:13         ` Tom

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