Re: [bitcoin-dev] [Pre-BIP] Motivating Address type for OP_RETURN

2021-04-24 Thread Jeremy via bitcoin-dev
Zac -- this is kind of offtopic for this thread, which is primarily to do with making software/standards that supports existing practices in the bitcoin community rather than new standards/formats for a similar task. I think there have been some other related posts recently where it might be more

Re: [bitcoin-dev] [Pre-BIP] Motivating Address type for OP_RETURN

2021-04-24 Thread Zac Greenwood via bitcoin-dev
> 1. More data allowed in scriptSig, e.g. 80 byte payload (81 actually, I > think) for OP_RETURN versus 40 bytes for a BIP141 payload. > Maximizing payload size better amortizes the overhead cost of the > containing transaction and the output's nValue field. In order to reduce the footprint

Re: [bitcoin-dev] [Pre-BIP] Motivating Address type for OP_RETURN

2021-04-24 Thread Jeremy via bitcoin-dev
I guess in the interest of being clear; I don't particularly want a OP_RETURN address either, they're just annoying to program around, and they exist historically, as well as perhaps in the future. Maybe people will start using the annex space to add any metadata required? E.g. stealth addresses.

Re: [bitcoin-dev] [Pre-BIP] Motivating Address type for OP_RETURN

2021-04-24 Thread David A. Harding via bitcoin-dev
On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 01:05:25PM -0700, Jeremy wrote: > I meant the type itself is too wide, not the length of the value. As in > Script can represent things we know nothing about. I guess I still don't understand your concern, then. If script can represent things we know nothing about, then s

Re: [bitcoin-dev] [Pre-BIP] Motivating Address type for OP_RETURN

2021-04-24 Thread Jeremy via bitcoin-dev
Inline responses On Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 11:18 AM David A. Harding wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 08:46:07AM -0700, Jeremy via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > > > > > * > Script is technically "too wide" a type as what I really want is to > > only return coins with known output types. I don't understand

Re: [bitcoin-dev] 7z block compression, 18%

2021-04-24 Thread Greg Maxwell via bitcoin-dev
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5303978.msg55946632#msg55946632 Blockstream satellite codebase includes an alternative serialization that works a single transaction at a time and saves ~20%. This avoids violating layering, preserves single txn access, is compatible with transaction relay.

Re: [bitcoin-dev] 7z block compression, 18%

2021-04-24 Thread Pavol Rusnak via bitcoin-dev
If block compression is going to be considered, zstd provides better properties than the competition. Especially for the decompression. [1] [1] https://github.com/facebook/zstd -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol "stick" Rusnak Co-founder and CTO, SatoshiLabs __

[bitcoin-dev] 7z block compression, 18%

2021-04-24 Thread NITSOPOULOS KONSTANTINOS via bitcoin-dev
Hi, I can compress new blocks by up to 18% using the 7z file type. I use wxHexEditor to dump a block's raw hex onto my disk, and then compress that with 7-Zip. I'd like to see 7z built into Bitcoin Core, for block compression (storage & propagation). The entire blockchain could be under 290GB if it

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Proposed BIP editor: Kalle Alm

2021-04-24 Thread Matt Corallo via bitcoin-dev
What is preventing the BIP maintainership role from moving to a bot? It does seem like a bot should be able to do a fine job given the explicit criteria (though ignoring obvious spam is often nice, its by no means a requirement). Given recent events where humans haveacted like humans, it see

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Proposed BIP editor: Kalle Alm

2021-04-24 Thread nopara73 via bitcoin-dev
ACK adding Kalle On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 5:51 PM Antoine Riard via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > Hi Luke, > > For the records and the subscribers of this list not following > #bitcoin-core-dev, this mail follows a discussion which did happen during > yesterday irc

[bitcoin-dev] Additional BIPs related to other proposals

2021-04-24 Thread Christopher Gilliard via bitcoin-dev
I have created three additional BIPs that are associated with my recent proposals. They can be found here: https://github.com/cgilliard/bips/blob/notification/bip-.mediawiki and here: https://github.com/cgilliard/bips/blob/moderation/bip-.mediawiki and here: https://github.com/cgilliar

[bitcoin-dev] Proposed BIP editor: Kalle Alm

2021-04-24 Thread Greg Maxwell via bitcoin-dev
I am opposed to the addition of Kalle Alm at this time. Those who believe that adding him will resolve the situation with Luke-jr's inappropriate behavior re: PR1104 are mistaken. 27e59ffd51ee5a95d0e0faff70e045faca10b00015e90abc1c8de48b1dfff40c ___ bi