It's propably best to create a separate p2p network for off-band information like this. No need to involve the blockchain with it.
- Joel On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 16:18 -0500, Gavin Andresen wrote: > One more thought on putting arbitrary stuff in the scriptSig: > > Miners could decide to revolt and remove the extra scriptSig > information before including the transaction in their blocks. They'd > still get the full transaction fee, and the transaction would still > validate so the block would be accepted by everybody else. > > Come to think of it, if a node relaying transactions wanted to save > bandwidth costs or be annoying, it could also strip off the extra > information before forwarding it, so this isn't a reliable > communication mechanism. It is probably a much better idea to use > another protocol to gather signatures. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
