Re: [bitcoin-dev] bitcoin-inquistion: evaluating soft forks on signet

2022-10-01 Thread Anthony Towns via bitcoin-dev
On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 11:48:32AM +, Michael Folkson via bitcoin-dev wrote: > SegWit was added > to a new testnet (Segnet) for testing rather than the pre-existing testnet > and I think future soft fork proposals should follow a similar approach. I think past history falls into a few groups:

Re: [bitcoin-dev] New transaction policies (nVersion=3) for contracting protocols

2022-10-01 Thread Ruben Somsen via bitcoin-dev
Hi Bastien, >Greg already has a draft design that addresses your concerns Thanks, that is very nice. In that case I currently have no outstanding objections. >I'm curious why you would need more than one such output My reasoning was actually to allow only one OP_TRUE output per transaction, so

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Trustless Address Server ? Outsourcing handing out addresses

2022-10-01 Thread Ruben Somsen via bitcoin-dev
Hi Peter, Thanks for your comments. >handing out xpubs makes the gap limit problem quadratic Yes, my thinking on this is that if you're handing out xpubs you can lower the gap limit for addresses generated by those xpubs, provided you assume those addresses will be used by the same person, so

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Trustless Address Server ? Outsourcing handing out addresses

2022-10-01 Thread Peter via bitcoin-dev
Hi Ruben, I think this is an important conversation you have raised. I want to add some points for discussion. 1) handing out xpubs makes the gap limit problem quadratic. Each customer, of a given business, on an invoice must be given a unique address or xpub but they may pay in cash or