[bitcoin-dev] [BIP-draft] CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY - An opcode for relative locktime

Rusty Russell rusty at rustcorp.com.au
Sun Aug 30 21:33:57 UTC 2015


jl2012 at xbt.hk writes:
> Rusty Russell 於 2015-08-26 23:08 寫到:
>> - We should immediately deploy an IsStandard() rule which insists that
>>   nSequence is 0xFFFFFFFF or 0, so nobody screws themselves when we
>>   soft fork and they had random junk in there.
>
> This is not needed because BIP68 is not active for version 1 tx. No 
> existing wallet would be affected.

Ah thanks!  I missed the version bump in BIP68.

>> Aside: I'd also like to have nLockTime apply even if nSequence !=
>> 0xFFFFFFFF (another mistake I made).  So I'd like an IsStandard() rule
>> to say it nLockTime be 0 if an nSequence != 0xFFFFFFFF.  Would that
>> screw anyone currently?
>
> Do you mean "have nLockTime apply even if nSequence = 0xFFFFFFFF"? This 
> is a softfork. Should we do this together with BIP65, BIP68 and BIP112?

Yes, but Mark pointed out that it has uses, so I withdraw the
suggestion.

Thanks,
Rusty.


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