On Wednesday, June 08, 2016 5:57:36 AM Johnson Lau via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Why not make it even bigger, e.g. 75 bytes?
I don't see a sufficient answer to this question. Pieter explained why >75 would be annoying, but 75 seems like it should be fine. > In any case, since scripts with a 1-byte push followed by a push of >40 > bytes remain anyone-can-spend, we always have the option to redefine them > with a softfork. It's not that simple, since this is preventing use of the witness field for such scripts. With this limit in place, any such a softfork would suddenly require either two different witness commitments, or disabling the previous witness transaction format. Luke _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
