The pattern used by Felix Weiss' BIP for Confidential Transactions depends on or is tidier with 0-value outputs.
Adam On 7 September 2017 at 00:54, CryptAxe via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > As long as an unspendable outputs (OP_RETURN outputs for example) with > amount=0 are still allowed I don't see it being an issue for anything. > > On Sep 5, 2017 2:52 PM, "Jorge Timón via bitcoin-dev" > <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: >> >> This is not a priority, not very important either. >> Right now it is possible to create 0-value outputs that are spendable >> and thus stay in the utxo (potentially forever). Requiring at least 1 >> satoshi per output doesn't really do much against a spam attack to the >> utxo, but I think it would be slightly better than the current >> situation. >> >> Is there any reason or use case to keep allowing spendable outputs >> with null amounts in them? >> >> If not, I'm happy to create a BIP with its code, this should be simple. >> _______________________________________________ >> bitcoin-dev mailing list >> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org >> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev > _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev