Greg Sanders [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2023-02-02 🗒️ Summary of this message: Greg Sanders ...

📅 Original date posted:2023-02-02
🗒️ Summary of this message: Greg Sanders proposes the Ephemeral Anchors idea in a short draft BIP, with a refreshed pull request, and suggests using OP_2 instead of OP_TRUE in test vectors.
📝 Original message:Hi Peter,

For the most principled of reasons:

Because I have to change test vectors everywhere!

Greg

On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 9:52 AM Peter Todd <pete at petertodd.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 09:05:20AM -0500, Greg Sanders via bitcoin-dev
> wrote:
> > Hello again dev,
> >
> > Due to the interest in the proposal and the prodding of certain folks,
> I've
> > written up a short draft BIP of the Ephemeral Anchors idea here:
> >
> https://github.com/instagibbs/bips/blob/ephemeral_anchor/bip-ephemeralanchors.mediawiki
> >
> > The pull request at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/26403 has
> been
> > refreshed on top of the latest V3 proposal, but the BIP itself is
> > unaffected.
>
> The BIP states that:
>
> Why OP_2 not OP_TRUE? OP_TRUE is often used in test vectors, using
> OP_2 has
> the same benefits and none of these common collisions.
>
> Why is a "collision" harmful in this case?
>
> --
> https://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
>
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