One more thought on putting arbitrary stuff in the scriptSig: Miners could decide to revolt and remove the extra scriptSig information before including the transaction in their blocks. They'd still get the full transaction fee, and the transaction would still validate so the block would be accepted by everybody else.
Come to think of it, if a node relaying transactions wanted to save bandwidth costs or be annoying, it could also strip off the extra information before forwarding it, so this isn't a reliable communication mechanism. It is probably a much better idea to use another protocol to gather signatures. -- -- Gavin Andresen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
