On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 03:34:33PM +0000, Christopher Gilliard via bitcoin-dev wrote: > This sounds like a good justification to remove the legacy multi-signature > capabilities as well. >
Doing so would confiscate coins, and also it is impossible to remove legacy multisignatures in general without gutting almost all of Script. > >> Thus, given that it is otherwise impossible to stop people from putting > arbitrary data values into their transactions, then we rather encourage > people who are going to encode their arbitrary data in transaction to use > the OP_RETURN outputs in order to avoid UTXO bloat. > > You can't make it completely impossible to do that, but you can make it > harder and at the same time you can provide a solution for doing what they > want to do. > I don't think you can even make it harder in a meaningful sense. There is too much flexibility in transaction data. -- Andrew Poelstra Director of Research, Blockstream Email: apoelstra at wpsoftware.net Web: https://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew The sun is always shining in space -Justin Lewis-Webster _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
