Rusty Russell [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2015-11-24 📝 Original message: Anthony Towns <aj at ...
📅 Original date posted:2015-11-24
📝 Original message:
Anthony Towns <aj at erisian.com.au> writes:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:05:46PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> With the segregated witness proposal, introducing new opcodes is easy,
>> so maybe someone would find a reason to prefer open-coding it like this?
>
> I don't follow how segregated witness makes new opcodes any easier?
I didn't either, and that's because it's slightly orthogonal.
The proposal I heard is that the first byte of SW script is a version
byte, and if you don't understand that version, the script succeeds.
Cheers,
Rusty.
📝 Original message:
Anthony Towns <aj at erisian.com.au> writes:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:05:46PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> With the segregated witness proposal, introducing new opcodes is easy,
>> so maybe someone would find a reason to prefer open-coding it like this?
>
> I don't follow how segregated witness makes new opcodes any easier?
I didn't either, and that's because it's slightly orthogonal.
The proposal I heard is that the first byte of SW script is a version
byte, and if you don't understand that version, the script succeeds.
Cheers,
Rusty.