[bitcoin-dev] Stamping transaction

2020-06-06 Thread Mostafa Sedaghat joo via bitcoin-dev
Hi *stamping transactions* is as simple idea but has huge impact. Simply, stamping transaction means putting previous block hash in the header of the transaction. With this simple technique we can *decouple *translation from the block. I have described my idea here: https://b00f.github.io/blockcha

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Stamping transaction

2020-06-06 Thread ZmnSCPxj via bitcoin-dev
Good morning Mostafa, First off, the proposed mechanism can be made into a softfork by using an unspendable `scriptPubKey` with 0 output value. For example, a stamp could by convention be any 0-value output whose `scriptPubKey` is ` OP_0`, which should be unspendable. Post-softfork nodes would