Why Nostr? What is Njump?
2023-06-07 15:23:05
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Peter Todd [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: šŸ“… Original date posted:2014-06-19 šŸ“ Original message:On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at ...

šŸ“… Original date posted:2014-06-19
šŸ“ Original message:On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 08:52:22AM -0400, Gavin Andresen wrote:
> RE: most of Peter Todd's comments:
>
> All of that should be separate pull requests. Big Honking Pull Requests
> are harder to review and are more likely to be bike-shedded to death.

Well, just doing one and not the rest isn't necessarily a good idea. The
malleability protection definitely seems like a good idea, and has had
quite a bit of review.

> RE: not relaying/mining transactions with OP_NOPs so miners don't mine
> up-version transactions that are invalid under future-new-rules: I'm not
> convinced it is worth adding more code (more potential for bugs) to protect
> against something that isn't going to happen because up-version
> transactions are non-standard (due to version check) in any case.

Do we have consensus that future soft-forks to add new opcodes will
always be done in conjunction with a transaction nVersion bump? If so,
then that's ok, if not, then we should have a whitelist.

The code to restrict the opcodes to the softfork-safe subset is trivial,
a GetOp() loop and a switch statement. It can always be removed later.

Something that comes to mind is if we do always bump nVersion then
OP_NOPx always will have a parallel "do-nothing" behavior, which means
EvalScript() will always have to have code enabling that backwards
compatible behavior.

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