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Re: [ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official
by
JahPowerBit
on 21/03/2014, 10:13:18 UTC

40 bytes is more than sufficient for all legitimate needs for tying data to a transaction

To me the word "legitimate" is the main problem.
Who can claim the power to say: this data is legitimate and that another is not legitimate. This is called censorship!

The question can not be: What data is legitimate to be stored in the blockchain?
Because this is a subjective question, and that no one can claim to have the answer.

The only question is: Should we allow the storage of data in the blockchain?
And the answer is: there is no choice, because it is possible to do with multisig transaction.
So the question becomes: Should we let people store data in multisig transactions or provide a cleaner way to do it?

History has shown that it is much smarter to regulate than to ban something that is impossible to ban.