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From: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com>
To: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] RFC: empty scriptPubKeys and OP_RETURN for marking unspendable txouts
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:42:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABsx9T1P=OC7amNeZivTVcQSb0+=FSKhvAB-XjDzkqq6bc07-g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130212151108.GA639@savin>

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On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:

> .... Again, thoughts?
>

First: I really like the fidelity bond concept, and want to see it happen.

RE: OP_RETURN : I've got a knee-jerk opposition to the OP_RETURN opcode,
because it was the cause of the nastiest bug ever Bitcoin history. So I'd
be more comfortable using either OP_FALSE or OP_INVALIDOPCODE for the
"provably unspendable" transaction.


RE: anyone-can-spend transactions:  Thinking aloud... I wonder if we might
inadvertently cause "spend storms" on the network; if suddenly there are 11
BTC sitting in an anybody-can-spend txout, I could imagine EVERYBODY on the
network trying to race each other to spend it (maybe assuming that there
are a few miners on old versions of the software who are too dumb to claim
it for themselves).


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Gavin Andresen

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-12 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-12 15:11 [Bitcoin-development] RFC: empty scriptPubKeys and OP_RETURN for marking unspendable txouts Peter Todd
2013-02-12 17:42 ` Gavin Andresen [this message]
2013-02-13  4:12   ` Peter Todd
2013-02-13 10:00     ` Mike Hearn

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