Andrew Poelstra [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2023-04-05 🗒️ Summary of this message: Murch has ...

📅 Original date posted:2023-04-05
🗒️ Summary of this message: Murch has proposed an informational BIP to establish a shared vocabulary for various components and aspects of transactions to avoid confusion.
📝 Original message:On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 02:54:15PM -0400, Murch via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> Over the years, I have participated in a few conversations about various
> aspects of transactions. Often a chunk of the conversation is spent on
> establishing a shared vocabulary. There are many competing terms—e.g. I can
> think of at least three additional terms that refer to `scriptPubKey`.
>
> I’ve drafted an informational BIP that proposes terminology for various
> components and aspects of transactions. As some established terms are
> already contradictory, the proposal does not aim for a perfectly consistent
> selection of terms, but rather just to establish a shared vocabulary to
> avoid confusion.
>
> Draft: https://github.com/Xekyo/bips/pull/1
>
> Please let me know whether you’d be interested in the creation of such a
> BIP.
>

I would be interested in such a BIP existing.

I will leave to others the hard work of bikeshedding every single term.


Cheers


--
Andrew Poelstra
Director of Research, Blockstream
Email: apoelstra at wpsoftware.net
Web: https://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew

The sun is always shining in space
-Justin Lewis-Webster

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