Re: Segwit details? segwit wastes precious blockchain space permanently
Also I made the mistake of making sure the transaction hash matches for a transaction. I had assumed that if the transaction hash doesnt match, it is invalid rawbytes. Are you saying that we dont need to verify that the transaction hashes match? As you know verifying signatures is very time consuming compared to verifying txid. So if verifying txid is not available anymore, that would dramatically increase the CPU load for any validating node.
Anymore? It was never done in the first place. Verifying the transaction has always been checking the signatures because the creating and verifying signatures involve the hash of the transaction.Also, I am making an optimized bitcoin core and one of these optimizations is rejecting a tx whose contents doesnt match the txid. The thinking being that if the hashes dont match, there is no point in wasting time calculating the signature
Every piece of Bitcoin software does this. It is a little obnoxious that you spend so much time talking about these optimizations you're "adding" which are basic behaviors that _every_ piece of Bitcoin software ever written has always done, as if you're the only person to have thought of them or how they distinguish this hypothetical node software you claim to be writing. Can't you, gmaxwell and knightdk, settle on verifying txid at last?
It's really hard to get info on SegWits here if even such an obvious thing (one would think) gets contradictory answers.
