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Christopher Allen [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2023-02-03 🗒️ Summary of this message: Increasing the ...

📅 Original date posted:2023-02-03
🗒️ Summary of this message: Increasing the size of OP_RETURN to support a hash, signature, and metadata would be helpful in avoiding deviant scenarios, according to Christopher Allen.
📝 Original message:On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 3:52 AM Aymeric Vitte via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> I think the right way so people don't invent deviant things is to
> increase the size of OP_RETURN, I don't get this number of 80B, you can
> hardly store a signature (of what?) in there and not the "what" if the
> "what" is a hash for example
>

Updating the size of OP_RETURN to support a hash (or two), a signature, and
maybe a few more bytes for metadata, would be very helpful in a number of
scenarios. It is still a limit but a reasonable one. Otherwise, I think
we'll have a lot more inscription-style scenarios.

-- Christopher Allen
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