From: Erik Aronesty <erik@q32.com>
To: "Russell O'Connor" <roconnor@blockstream.com>,
Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Speedy covenants (OP_CAT2)
Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 09:32:18 -0400 [thread overview]
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> FWIW, I think the rmain reasons to do CAT+CSFS is to validate oracle
> messages and pubkey delegation. The ability to covenants would be
> secondary and would mostly serve to get us some real user data about what
> sort of covenants users find especially valuable.
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I don't think this should be discounted. I think it's worthwhile to
willingly include possibly less-than-awesome, but proven perfectly-safe
opcodes, knowing we will have to validate them forever, even if new, cooler
and more widely-used ones replace them years from now.
I honestly don't think the development of the latter will happen without
some version of the former.
Personally I am satisfied:
- the safety of covenants, in general, is covered by how addresses are
generated
- fears of forced forward-encumbrance are not any worse than can be
easily done today
- ctv+apo, cat+csfs are fine, but we should pick ones that everyone
thinks are "good enough for everyone who cares about them"
- they are not an undue burden on nodes in terms of
validate-cpu-cycles-per-byte (have we proven this?)
- the complexity is low, code is easy to validate
- won't introduce DDOS attack vectors (also needs to be proven i think?)
- the game theory underpinning selfish miner support of the chain won't
be altered by causing a widespread use of on-chain leveraging instruments
(shorting bitcoin on-chain would be dangerous, for example)
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-06 22:30 [bitcoin-dev] Speedy covenants (OP_CAT2) Jorge Timón
2022-05-07 3:06 ` ZmnSCPxj
2022-05-07 3:52 ` vjudeu
2022-05-07 13:31 ` Jorge Timón
2022-05-11 15:25 ` alicexbt
2022-05-11 16:03 ` vjudeu
2022-05-07 13:27 ` Jorge Timón
2022-05-07 14:08 ` ZmnSCPxj
[not found] ` <CABm2gDo1wTOoWcNgJ4mUgSB3KCtBSnjqe3nwVBSL+7=ziDJ==w@mail.gmail.com>
2022-05-07 22:28 ` ZmnSCPxj
2022-05-08 2:03 ` Nadav Ivgi
2022-05-08 2:19 ` ZmnSCPxj
2022-05-11 10:57 ` vjudeu
2022-05-11 11:42 ` ZmnSCPxj
2022-05-11 19:41 ` Russell O'Connor
2022-05-12 3:07 ` ZmnSCPxj
2022-05-12 10:48 ` Russell O'Connor
2022-05-13 21:43 ` Anthony Towns
2022-05-13 23:33 ` Russell O'Connor
2022-05-14 13:32 ` Erik Aronesty [this message]
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