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From: Tier Nolan <tier.nolan@gmail.com>
To: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] SF proposal: prohibit unspendable outputs with amount=0
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 23:20:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE-z3OWQZK1z7WFOSQOu15ri2cOGx9vCzyd1P=Q1t6MPDBOcLw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABm2gDojDQWMhw8wW1UkRGKtdbby2+6AFFZLPuRcUb7WF_u5qQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:51 PM, Jorge Timón via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> Is there any reason or use case to keep allowing spendable outputs
> with null amounts in them?
>

Someone could have created a timelocked transaction that depends on a zero
value output.

This could be protected by requiring a tx version number change.  Only zero
outputs in the new version would be affected.

I am not sure how strictly people are sticking to that rule though.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-06 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-05 21:51 [bitcoin-dev] SF proposal: prohibit unspendable outputs with amount=0 Jorge Timón
2017-09-06 22:20 ` Tier Nolan [this message]
2017-09-06 23:54 ` CryptAxe
2017-09-07  1:29   ` Adam Back
2017-09-07  3:41     ` CryptAxe
2017-09-07  9:56       ` Hampus Sjöberg
2017-09-07 10:31   ` Tier Nolan
2017-09-07 18:00 ` Peter Todd
2017-09-09 21:11   ` Jorge Timón
2017-09-13  9:24     ` Peter Todd
2017-09-13  9:34       ` Gregory Maxwell

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