Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP draft] CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY - Prevent a txout from being spent until an expiration time

[Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>]

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On 1 October 2014 11:23:55 GMT-07:00, Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org> wrote:
>Thoughts on some way to have the stack item be incremented by the
>height at
>which the scriptPubKey was in a block?

Better to create a GET-TXIN-BLOCK-(TIME/HEIGHT)-EQUALVERIFY operator. scriptPubKey would be:

    GET-TXIN-BLOCKHEIGHT-EQUALVERIFY

(fails unless top stack item is equal to the txin block height)

    <delta height> ADD

(top stack item is now txin height + delta height)

    CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY

> A limitation of encoding the
>target
>height/time directly, is that miners may choose not to mine the first
>transaction until they can also take the "burn to fee". So, one may
>prefer to
>say "cannot be spent until 100 blocks after the first transaction is
>mined",
>in effect reproducing the generation maturity rule.

You'd want these sacrifices to unlock years into the future to thoroughly exceed any reasonable business cycle; that's so far into the future that miners are almost certain to just mine them and collect the fees.
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