Re: [bitcoin-dev] Two questions about segwit implementation

[Aymeric Vitte <vitteaymeric@gmail.com>]

Well, OK, then back to non standard stuff and bitcoin considers that an
OP_1 or empty scriptpubkey is something that can exist, sipa does not
like my questions on this list but this is a bit frightening in fact to
see that after 10 years an OP_1 scriptpubkey or empty one can be a use
case, thanks Thomas also, where all of this is clearly documented so
people don't bother the list not to produce approximative stuff remains
mysterious

Le 26/05/2019 à 19:24, Johnson Lau a écrit :
> Empty scriptSig doesn’t imply segwit input: if the previous scriptPubKey is OP_1 (which does not allow witness), it could still be spent with an empty scriptSig
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> Similarly, a scriptSig looking like a spend of P2SH-segwit doesn’t imply segwit input: if the previous scriptPubKey is empty, it could be spent with a push of any non-zero value.
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>> On 27 May 2019, at 1:09 AM, Aymeric Vitte <vitteaymeric@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I did not phrase correctly in fact, what I meant is: if the validator
>> sees empty or witness script in scriptSig, then this is a segwit input,
>> and doing this one by one the validator can associate the correct segwit
>> data to the correct segwit input, so 00 does not look to be needed
>>
>> Le 26/05/2019 à 18:28, Johnson Lau a écrit :
>>> This is not how it works. While the transaction creator may know which inputs are segwit, the validators have no way to tell until they look up the UTXO set.
>>>
>>> In a transaction, all information about an input the validators have is the 36-byte outpoint (txid + index). Just by looking at the outpoint, there is no way to tell whether it is segwit-enabled or not. So there needs to be a way to tell the validator that “the witness for this input is empty”, and it is the “00”.
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>>>> On 27 May 2019, at 12:18 AM, Aymeric Vitte <vitteaymeric@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ……. for the 00 number of witness
>>>> data for non segwit inputs the one that is doing the transaction knows
>>>> which inputs are segwit or not, then parsing the transaction you can
>>>> associate the correct input to the correct witness data, without the
>>>> need of 00, so I must be missing the use case
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