It can speed up the initial chain download. A newly created wallet will
have only new key-pairs, hence no incoming transactions (unless we have a
key collision, which is unlikely). So there is no need for a bootstrapping
node to download the chain with transactions. The chain itself can be
This meeting is to discuss the new OP_EVAL changes coming to bitcoin.
A good summary of the past discussion so far by justmoon can be found:
http://privatepaste.com/4088b049af
Hopefully this can become a weekly thing. For now this is to discuss and inform
about the coming changes to bitcoin.
Seems ... acceptable from first glance.
Though I propose an ammendent to either
(1)
make the script: OP_NOP1 HASH160 push-20-byte-hash EQUAL to make it
extremely easy to see from the first byte that this is verly likely to be
a special transaction (or more accurately if the first byte isn't
+1. I love this proposal.
It's two less bytes than OP_EVAL even.
It allows static analysis.
It doesn't require any change to the script interpreter. (You can do a
static replacement step between parsing and execution.)
It allows all urgent use cases.
It doesn't consume a NOP. If we ever want
Because many made the mistake and it isnt specified in this email, this
meeting is tomorrow (not 30 minutes ago).
On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 08:04 -0800, Amir Taaki wrote:
This meeting is to discuss the new OP_EVAL changes coming to bitcoin.
A good summary of the past discussion so far by justmoon
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Elden Tyrell tyrell.el...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2012-01-02 05:31:19 -0800, Christian Decker said:
Later full blocks would be required to detect usable inputs for future
outgoing transactions.
Er, yes, this is what I meant; I guess I should have been more
On 2012-01-02 14:41:10 -0800, Gregory Maxwell said:
make this possible: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=21995.0
Neat! I had a similar idea but you've clearly beat me to [a big part of] it.
Er, no— if a node controls the private keys for a transaction, and
that transaction makes it
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