Andreas Schildbach [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2018-04-13 📝 Original message:Anton, a developer on the ...
📅 Original date posted:2018-04-13
📝 Original message:Anton, a developer on the bitcoinj maiing list, recently made me aware
[1] of a compatibility issue between segwit and BIP37 (Bloom Filtering).
The issue affects only P2WPKH and the special case of transactions
without change outputs (such as when emptying a wallet). In this case,
neither inputs not outputs contain any data elements that would cause a
match for the filter. The public key, which would match, goes to the
witness but not to the input.
My suggestion was to include an OP_RETURN output with a matching public
key in such transactions. Anton confirmed that this workaround is indeed
working. But of course it nullifies some of the segwit's size improvements.
I wonder if Bitcoin Core would be willing to extend the BIP37 matching
rules such that data elements in the witness are also matched against?
[1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bitcoinj/SJpLgjowc1I/V7u2BavvAwAJ
📝 Original message:Anton, a developer on the bitcoinj maiing list, recently made me aware
[1] of a compatibility issue between segwit and BIP37 (Bloom Filtering).
The issue affects only P2WPKH and the special case of transactions
without change outputs (such as when emptying a wallet). In this case,
neither inputs not outputs contain any data elements that would cause a
match for the filter. The public key, which would match, goes to the
witness but not to the input.
My suggestion was to include an OP_RETURN output with a matching public
key in such transactions. Anton confirmed that this workaround is indeed
working. But of course it nullifies some of the segwit's size improvements.
I wonder if Bitcoin Core would be willing to extend the BIP37 matching
rules such that data elements in the witness are also matched against?
[1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bitcoinj/SJpLgjowc1I/V7u2BavvAwAJ