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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: 1111111111111111111114oLvT2
by
BlackHatCoiner
on 14/03/2023, 18:33:38 UTC
I believe there should be some sort of fail safe in place to avoid losing coins when you make a mistake sending to a wrong script, maybe miners/ nodes should never accept to relay such transactions?
Absolutely not. First of all you can't send coins to a burning looking address by mistake. It's something you need to do deliberately. In fact, there are reasons sometimes to send coins there, like supposedly Proof-of-burn mechanisms like Counterparty. Secondly, not relaying such transactions would introduce censorship.

As for falsely written scripts, we already have non-standardness. Be cautious from that point on.