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Re: [ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official
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BitcoinTangibleTrust
on 21/03/2014, 19:15:38 UTC

This is not a good proposal. If nothing else, you're seriously misunderstanding the motivations for the various proposals at the table. We don't need six months to implement anything, and the Bitcoin protocol shouldn't go backwards as you suggest. This also doesn't address the security issue that Peter Todd brought up.

As I see it, the best solution is to keep the OP_RETURN size at 40 bytes, for simplicity and compatibility, but to allow multiple OP_RETURN outputs per transaction. There's no reason that 40 bytes of misc. data per transaction is better for Bitcoin than 80, or 120 bytes. Luke-Jr, jgarzik, et al. are merely uncomfortable with the idea of using Bitcoin for things that they had never thought of, so they don't want to encourage people to do anything but store hashes in the blockchain (as if everyone had explicitly agreed to do that!).

Much better than anything I could come up with. I crossed out what I wrote above. Thanks for outlining a sensible approach.

I'll bow out from here on out.