Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fw: Quote on BIP 16

2012-01-29 Thread Luke-Jr
On Sunday, January 29, 2012 9:30:10 AM Gavin Andresen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Amir Taaki wrote: > > (oops sorry greg- replied to you by mistake) > > > > That address he gives is 77 characters/bytes (same thing). What I'm > > asking is how can it be so small. > > That's an alter

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fw: Quote on BIP 16

2012-01-29 Thread Gavin Andresen
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Amir Taaki wrote: > (oops sorry greg- replied to you by mistake) > > That address he gives is 77 characters/bytes (same thing). What I'm asking > is how can it be so small. That's an alternative design for multisig addresses that would put a byte giving the type

[Bitcoin-development] Fw: Quote on BIP 16

2012-01-29 Thread Amir Taaki
(oops sorry greg- replied to you by mistake) That address he gives is 77 characters/bytes (same thing). What I'm asking is how can it be so small. I know that it's encoding a script, but then I started trying to imagine what kind of script and to me it seems that 2 public keys are too large for