No in this case the txid is identical. Only the wtxid is malleated, with
annex data stuffed to max transaction size.

Cheers,
Greg

On Sat, Jun 3, 2023, 8:36 AM Joost Jager <joost.ja...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Depending on policy to mitigate this annex malleability vector could
>> mislead developers into believing their transactions are immune to
>> replacement, when in fact they might not be.
>>
>> The issue I'm talking about is where someone's transaction is denied
>> entry into the mempool entirely because a counter-party decided to put in a
>> strictly worse transaction for miners by bloating the weight of it, not
>> adding fees. A strictly worse "API" for paying miners for no gain seems
>> like a bad trade to me, especially when there are reasonable methods for
>> mitigating this.
>>
>
> Just to expand this, an example would be a transaction with inputs A' and
> B' signed by two parties A and B. A has a fully signed transaction in
> hands, but can't publish it because B created and published an alternative
> version of it with a large annex for input B'. Wouldn't miners just accept
> A's version because it's fee rate is higher? I am looking at this case
> assuming the user has a direct connection to a miner, ignoring any
> potential concerns related to p2p transport.
>
> Joost
>
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