Re: [bitcoin-dev] Ark: An Alternative Privacy-preserving Second Layer Solution

2023-08-06 Thread Antoine Riard via bitcoin-dev
Hi Burak, Thanks for the interesting Ark proposal. >From my understanding the protocol is played between 3 entities: the sender, the receiver and the ASP and you have 3 types of transactions: - the pool_tx - the ATLC-connection_tx - the ATLC-refund_tx The pool_tx spends an on-chain funding

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Pull-req to remove the arbitrary limits on OP_Return outputs

2023-08-06 Thread John Light via bitcoin-dev
Hi Peter, Re: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28130 I have a few questions about your proposal and its impact on full node operators: 1. With your proposed policy change removing the OP_RETURN output count and data size limits, is there ever a case where using OP_RETURN to embed data

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Concrete MATT opcodes

2023-08-06 Thread David A. Harding via bitcoin-dev
On July 30, 2023 11:37:49 AM HST, Salvatore Ingala via bitcoin-dev >I have put together a first complete proposal for the core opcodes of >MATT [1][2]. >The changes make the opcode functionally complete, and the >implementation is revised and improved. > [...] >[1] - https://merkle.fun/ >[2] -

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP-352 Silent Payments addresses should have an expiration time

2023-08-06 Thread Brandon Black via bitcoin-dev
On 2023-08-05 (Sat) at 14:06:10 +, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > bytes | prefix | usable bits | granularity | max expiration > > --||-|-|--- > > 1 | 0b0| 7 | year| 128 years > > 2 | 0b10 |

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP-352 Silent Payments addresses should have an expiration time

2023-08-06 Thread josibake via bitcoin-dev
Hi Peter, Thanks for the feedback! As you mentioned, this is a more general problem in Bitcoin and not specific to BIP352. Therefore, if expiration dates are indeed something we want, they should be proposed and discussed as their own BIP and be a standard that can work for xpubs, static

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP-352 Silent Payments addresses should have an expiration time

2023-08-06 Thread Samson Mow via bitcoin-dev
Why the 180 year limit? imho should plan for longer. On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 10:41 AM Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > tl;dr: Wallets don't last forever. They are often compromised or lost. When > this happens, the addresses generated from those wallets