Re: [bitcoin-dev] Thoughts on fee bumping

2022-02-16 Thread Billy Tetrud via bitcoin-dev
> the validity of a sponsor txn is "monotonically" true at any point after the inclusion of the sponsored txn in a block. Oh I see his point now. If sponsors were valid at any point in the future, not only would a utxo index be needed but an index of all transactions. Yeah, that wouldn't be good.

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Thoughts on fee bumping

2022-02-16 Thread James O'Beirne via bitcoin-dev
> What do you mean by monotone in the context of sponsor transactions? I take this to mean that the validity of a sponsor txn is "monotonically" true at any point after the inclusion of the sponsored txn in a block. > And when you say tx-index, do you mean an index for looking up a > transaction

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Thoughts on fee bumping

2022-02-16 Thread Billy Tetrud via bitcoin-dev
@Jeremy > there are technical reasons for sponsors to not be monotone. Mostly that it requires the maintenance of an additional permanent TX-Index, making Bitcoin's state grow at a much worse rate What do you mean by monotone in the context of sponsor transactions? And when you say tx-index, do