Hi Tom,
without having gone into the details yet, thanks for the great effort you have
put into this research and implementation already!
> The bulk of our size savings come from replacing the prevout of each input by
> a block height and index.
Have you also considered using just an index from a sorted UTXO set instead?
The potential additional space saving might be minor but this would make the
scheme compatible with pruning. I had this on my list as a future research
topic but didn't get around to it yet.
Thanks,
Fabian
------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, August 31st, 2023 at 11:30 PM, Tom Briar via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I've been working on a way to compress bitcoin transactions for transmission
> throughsteganography, satellite broadcasting,
> and other low bandwidth channels with high CPU availability on decompression.
>
> [compressed_transactions.md](https://github.com/TomBriar/bitcoin/blob/2023-05--tx-compression/doc/compressed_transactions.md)
>
> In the document I describe a compression schema that's tailored for the most
> common transactions single parties are likely to make.
> In every case it falls back such that no transaction will become malformed or
> corrupted.
> Here's a PR for implementing this schema.
>
> [2023 05 tx compression](https://github.com/TomBriar/bitcoin/pull/3)
> Thanks-
> Tom.
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