Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: soft-fork to make anyone-can-spend outputs unspendable for 100 blocks

2013-06-03 Thread Michael Hendricks
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > Sorry if this is a stupid question, but why would someone want to > sacrifice their bitcoins? > Good question. One reason is https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Fidelity_bonds Cheers, Michael ---

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: soft-fork to make anyone-can-spend outputs unspendable for 100 blocks

2013-06-03 Thread Mark Friedenbach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 10:32:07PM -0400, Gavin wrote: >> Feels like a new opcode might be better. >> >> Eg 100 OP_NOP1 >> >> ... Where op_nop1 is redefined to be 'verify depth' ... I would suggest the more general 'push depth onto stack'. You can t

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: soft-fork to make anyone-can-spend outputs unspendable for 100 blocks

2013-06-03 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 1 June 2013 21:30, Peter Todd wrote: > Currently the most compact way (proof-size) to sacrifice Bitcoins that > does not involve making them unspendable is to create a anyone-can-spend > output as the last txout in the coinbase of a block: > > scriptPubKey: OP_TRUE > > The proof is then the S