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From: "Jorge Timón" <jtimon@monetize.io>
To: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
Cc: Bitcoin Development <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] To prevent arbitrary data storage in txouts — The Ultimate Solution
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:58:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC1+kJOM=QrK4w5O-sqH=CV30v7KCxBZPBS9c+p12XK5UsJ2iw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130410030831.GA12447@savin>

On 4/10/13, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
> Oh, and while we're at it, long-term (hard-fork) it'd be good to change
> the tx hash algorithm to extend the merkle tree into the txouts/txins
> itself, which means that to prove a given txout exists you only need to
> provide it, rather than the full tx.
>
> Currently pruning can't prune a whole tx until every output is spent.
> Make that change and we can prune tx's bit by bit, and still be able to
> serve nodes requesting proof of their UTXO without making life difficult
> for anyone trying to spent old UTXO's. The idea is also part of UTXO
> proof stuff anyway.

I thought about this before, I like the idea very much.
Would such a fork be controversial for anyone?
Would anyone oppose to this for some reason I'm missing?

-- 
Jorge Timón

http://freico.in/



  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-10 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-10  2:53 [Bitcoin-development] To prevent arbitrary data storage in txouts — The Ultimate Solution Gregory Maxwell
2013-04-10  3:03 ` Peter Todd
2013-04-10  3:08   ` Peter Todd
2013-04-10 15:58     ` Jorge Timón [this message]
2013-04-11 11:27       ` Peter Todd
2013-04-10  6:53   ` Peter Todd
2013-04-10  7:15     ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-04-10  7:29       ` Peter Todd
2013-04-10  3:52 ` Robert Backhaus
2013-04-10  3:58   ` Gregory Maxwell

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