Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 65 and OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY inquiry...

2014-11-28 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Flavien Charlon wrote: >> This breaks existing invariants and would make the coins potentially less >> fungible because they wouldn't be reorg safe. > > I'm not sure coins are ever reorg safe. All it takes is a double spend in > the history of your coins for them

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 65 and OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY inquiry...

2014-11-28 Thread Flavien Charlon
> This breaks existing invariants and would make the coins potentially less fungible because they wouldn't be reorg safe. I'm not sure coins are ever reorg safe. All it takes is a double spend in the history of your coins for them to become invalid after a reorg. Because of that, there are already

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 65 and OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY inquiry...

2014-11-27 Thread Peter Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 27 November 2014 18:46:23 GMT-05:00, Gregory Maxwell wrote: >The things you're suggesting were all carefully designed out of the >proposal, perhaps the BIP text needs some more clarification to make >this more clear. It does; it is still a

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 65 and OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY inquiry...

2014-11-27 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:56 PM, Richard Moore wrote: > Heya, > > I was wondering about BIP 65 regarding the OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY, and > thought it might make more sense to instead have a OP_CHECKLOCKTIME which > would simply push an OP_TRUE or OP_FALSE onto the stack? Updating the stack is no

[Bitcoin-development] BIP 65 and OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY inquiry...

2014-11-27 Thread Richard Moore
Heya, I was wondering about BIP 65 regarding the OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY, and thought it might make more sense to instead have a OP_CHECKLOCKTIME which would simply push an OP_TRUE or OP_FALSE onto the stack? That way someone could include multiple OP_CHECKLOCKTIME conditions in a single script