one minor correction: the video says you can't tell what opcodes are used in unspent scripts.
this is true. you *can* however tell what version of scripts bitcoin is locked up to.
so theoretically you could remove support for a version of script once all bitcoin locked up to that script version had been spent.
there are currently 3 versions of scripts in bitcoin; none of them have ever been deprecated and all of them currently have funds locked up to them.
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2023-12-15 18:26:19
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