Bitcoin Mailing List on Nostr: 🔖 Title: New standard transaction types: time to schedule a blockchain split? ...

🔖 Title: New standard transaction types: time to schedule a blockchain split?
🏷️ Categories: Bitcoin-development
👥 Authors:
• Jeff Garzik ( Jeff Garzik [ARCHIVE] (npub1kf0…3f58) )
• Rick Wesson ( Rick Wesson [ARCHIVE] (npub1xz8…925u) )
• Luke-Jr ( Luke-Jr [ARCHIVE] (npub1dtr…7wrs) )
• bgroff at lavabit.com ( bgroff at lavabit.com [ARCHIVE] (npub1lsu…mjm0) )
• Douglas Huff ( Douglas Huff [ARCHIVE] (npub1xpr…6eq0) )
• Mike Hearn ( Mike Hearn [ARCHIVE] (npub17ty…qgyd) )
• theymos ( theymos [ARCHIVE] (npub10vt…per0) )
• Gregory Maxwell ( Gregory Maxwell [ARCHIVE] (npub1f2n…rwet) )
• Michael Grønager ( Michael Grønager [ARCHIVE] (npub15fm…lq6h) )
• Gavin Andresen ( Gavin Andresen [ARCHIVE] (npub1s4l…44kw) )
• Pieter Wuille ( Pieter Wuille [ARCHIVE] (npub1tje…tl6r) )
• Christian Decker ( Christian Decker [ARCHIVE] (npub1wtx…tuyn) )
🗒️ Conversation Summary: Bitcoin developers discussed implementing multi-signature transactions for more secure wallets, including proposals for new standard transactions and addresses. There were concerns about compatibility with old clients and potential issues with dynamically adapting block size and adjusting difficulty every block. Whitelisting basic CHECKMULTISIG forms was suggested as a non-controversial solution, and proposals were made to add new opcodes and create an address type that can encode any payment script for more efficient transactions. The size of output scripts for different transactions was also discussed.
📅 Messages Date Range: 2011-08-24 to 2011-08-26
✉️ Message Count: 34
📚 Total Characters in Messages: 59919