Re: [bitcoin-dev] Witness script validation to reject arbitrary data

2023-05-09 Thread Aymeric Vitte via bitcoin-dev
Le 08/05/2023 à 23:43, Christopher Allen via bitcoin-dev a écrit : > There was a recent thread discussing raising the limit on > OP_RETURN https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/27043 Indeed we already discussed all of this, and the conclusion was: there are no reasons to impose limits, becaus

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Witness script validation to reject arbitrary data

2023-05-09 Thread Moth via bitcoin-dev
> They could have just as easily used OP_RETURN outputs or any number of other data encoding techniques. But doesn't OP_RETURN render the UTXO unspendable, thereby making it impossible to "trade" the minted BTC-20 tokens? Moth Sent from Proton Mail for iOS On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 7:55 PM, Peter

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Witness script validation to reject arbitrary data

2023-05-08 Thread angus via bitcoin-dev
> Is there a reason such a validation check is a bad idea? We already have > OP_RETURN to store arbitrary data that is limited to 80kb. A reason to not ban storing arbitrary/non-functional data is that people will still want to store things, so will start (ab)using useful data to do so, which

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Witness script validation to reject arbitrary data

2023-05-08 Thread Christopher Allen via bitcoin-dev
On May 8, 2023 at 1:16:41 PM, Moth via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > From what I understand, things like inscriptions can only be inserted > between two specific flags - OP_FALSE and OP_IF. Having a validation check > to reject witness scripts that have arbitrary da

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Witness script validation to reject arbitrary data

2023-05-08 Thread Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev
On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 08:16:41PM +, Moth via bitcoin-dev wrote: > From what I understand, things like inscriptions can only be inserted between > two specific flags - OP_FALSE and OP_IF. That's just an artifical limitation of the current inscription protocol. There are endless ways to embed

[bitcoin-dev] Witness script validation to reject arbitrary data

2023-05-08 Thread Moth via bitcoin-dev
From what I understand, things like inscriptions can only be inserted between two specific flags - OP_FALSE and OP_IF. Having a validation check to reject witness scripts that have arbitrary data between these two flags could be used to reject inscriptions while still allowing all the benefits o