On Wed 2018-03-21 18:22:57 -0400, Tao Effect wrote:
> This is specific to Bitcoin and Bitcoin-like datastructures which
> simply do not allocate enough room for arbitrary data.
Thanks for clarifying this! If i understand correctly, your argument
appears to depend on all three of the following assertions:
a) the chunks of arbitrary data that can be injected in the
datastructure in question are smaller than some specific size (let's
call it X bytes).
b) there is no standard mechanism used for the datastructure in
question that aggregates multiple pieces of arbitrarily-injected
data into any larger structure.
c) there is no toxic data that is X bytes or smaller.
is that right? I don't know the Bitcoin protocol that well. What is
the value of X for the Bitcoin blockchain?
Is (a) some sort of general principle that we should try to include in
designs of any append-only globally-distributed datastructures?
how do we ensure that (b) remains the case? how do we verify that (c)
is true in the jurisdictions that we care about?
--dkg
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