It is already more than a half year since the probably mayor Bitcoin script
exploit started.
These exploits are nothing new in the Bitcoin history and mostly are due to the
loose flexibility of the system in regards of processing predicatives (Bitcoin
script). The very first mayor bug; if you wish, vulnerability, was the
CVE-2010-5141, which still engages us without end even after 14 years.
Subsequent Bitcoin historical events let to build more “improvements” upon this
wobbly basis exposing even more ground for exploits.
As long as this loose flexibility is not modified in a way its exposure for
exploits is eliminated remains nothing else than to pursue other strategies;
and ones which are compatible with the current status quo and furthermore, with
a permission-less system.
Here a strategy proposal:
Let’s name it: #Ordisrespector and #Ordislow.
Why #Ordisrespector and #Ordislow are compatible with a permission-less system.
#Ordisrespector gives the option to a regular Bitcoin node operator to opt-in
or not to a self-defense of his/her storage property (and thus of his/her
integrity); by giving a signal of dissatisfaction with the current affairs of
aggression via insertion of arbitrary data into the witness structure. This
dissatisfaction signal is manifested by not taking into the mempool and
relaying transactions with inserted arbitrary data in the witness structure.
#Ordislow gives the option to a regular Bitcoin node operator to opt-in or not
to a self-defense of his/her storage property (and thus of his/her integrity);
by increasing the coercion cost of mining-entities relative to the cooperation
cost of mining-entities due to the current affairs of aggression via insertion
of arbitrary data into the witness structure. This coercion cost increment is
manifested by not propagating a found block, unless a configurable or maximum
delay has elapsed, which contains at least a transaction with inserted
arbitrary data in the witness structure.
Chris
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