Quote from: franky1 on March 05, 2023, 08:14:08 AM

Quote from: pooya87 on March 05, 2023, 05:16:25 AM

Quote from: larry_vw_1955 on March 05, 2023, 04:41:58 AM

you would think the devs would understand that point of view and do something about it. why did the witness need to be so big anyway?

Historically the bitcoin consensus rules about things that aren't checked have been loose (they still are) for example your output script can be literary anything like an invalid script or any arbitrary data of any size like a picture that is not even a script.
This is a good thing because it allows future expansion through soft forks but also it could lead to abuse of the system and spam attacks.

historically pre 2017 there was only ONE opcode that allowed things unchecked
it was called "anyonecanspend" but even that had a byte limit

it was the 2017 events that opened that up

There has never been any OP codes called "anyonecanspend" ever in Bitcoin.

You can easily check what I said above on regtest or testnet, as I said your output script (ie. scriptpub) is NOT checked so you can dump anything WITHOUT using any OP codes in there with any size (of course smaller than block size).
The ONLY thing preventing you from doing it is the standard rules where nodes don't relay your "valid" but spamy transaction.