Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 34: Block v2, Height in Coinbase

2012-07-06 Thread Peter Vessenes
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Jeff Garzik jgar...@exmulti.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Peter Vessenes pe...@coinlab.com wrote: The proposal is simple, and it's a small change for miners, I imagine. My question is: why? I worry about stuffing too many requirements on

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 34: Block v2, Height in Coinbase

2012-07-06 Thread Peter Vessenes
So, The proposal is simple, and it's a small change for miners, I imagine. My question is: why? I worry about stuffing too many requirements on the coinbase. I suppose the coinbase is easily extendible if we run out of bytes, but I think I'd like to see some more discussion / good / bad type

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 34: Block v2, Height in Coinbase

2012-07-06 Thread Gavin Andresen
But those issues are solvable through other, non-backwards incompatible means. For example, mandate that a transaction hash, output index refers to the first such pair that is not already spent. No? Yes, that is essentially what BIP 30 did. We want to do this also, partly for belt and

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 34: Block v2, Height in Coinbase

2012-07-06 Thread Amir Taaki
jgar...@exmulti.com Cc: Bitcoin Development bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, July 6, 2012 6:56 PM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 34: Block v2, Height in Coinbase On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Jeff Garzik jgar...@exmulti.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:45 PM

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 34: Block v2, Height in Coinbase

2012-07-06 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Gavin Andresen gavinandre...@gmail.com wrote: But those issues are solvable through other, non-backwards incompatible means. For example, mandate that a transaction hash, output index refers to the first such pair that is not already spent. No? Yes, that is