Hey guys,

so to my understanding the reason for the idea of making multisig transactions non-standard was the high amount of unspent outputs that were created by data-storage transactions. I want to put this into some perspective:



(http://i.imgur.com/c9mpd8h.png)

I did not evaluate how many unspent outputs were created by all multisig outputs, because I'm unable to do so efficiently, but here are some observations nevertheless:

Out of 35.508.561 multisig outputs ever seen on the blockchain XCP and MSC account for 5.192 multisig outputs. That's about 0.000146 %.
Out of 9.819.223 unspent outputs at the very moment (RPC: gettxoutsetinfo) the amount of unspent XCP and MSC multisig outputs is 3.226. That's about 0.000329 %.

In the case one wants to run some tests on this data: multisig-usage.rar (format: "txid vout rawtxhex" -- file size is about 8 MB, but be aware that multisig-all-full.txt is over 1.4 GB unpacked!)


Please don't get me wrong, I do not say that we don't contribute to a higher utxo set and a general statement about the usage of multisig transactions is more difficult to make, because I have no idea how to evaluate the other 99.999%. My above used criteria were: "has an standard output to Exodus address and multisig output" and "has an multisig output with XCP magic bytes". If you have any idea, go ahead.