On Tuesday, January 26, 2016 3:07:40 AM Toby Padilla wrote: > > I don't see any benefit to changing that. It is better that coins are > > burned. > > I think this is our fundamental disagreement. People will burn coins to > encode data, why allow this when there's a better alternative?
My point is that there isn't a better alternative. The coins being burned, is strictly better than it being gratis. > > You *always* need a key, to redeem inputs... regardless of values. > > Correct, but with BIP70 that key is in the user's wallet and you can > construct transactions on another machine (thus not needing a key during > construction). Right now there's no way to do the transaction construction > on another machine with zero value OP_RETURNs. This is also a good thing. Spam should not be made easier or cheaper. Luke _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
