Good morning Zac, > Reducing the footprint of storing data on-chain might better be achieved by > *supporting* it. > > Currently storing data is wasteful because it is embedded inside an OP_RETURN > within a transaction structure. As an alternative, by supporting storing of > raw data without creating a transaction, waste can be reduced.
If the data is not embedded inside a transaction, how would I be able to pay a miner to include the data on the blockchain? I need a transaction in order to pay a miner anyway, so why not just embed it into the same transaction I am using to pay the miner? (i.e. the current design) Regards, ZmnSCPxj _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev