[bitcoin-dev] Flexible Transactions.

Tom Zander tomz at freedommail.ch
Mon Nov 21 20:28:51 UTC 2016


On Monday, 21 November 2016 10:54:19 CET Russell O'Connor wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Tom via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev at lists.
> 
> linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > The OP_CHECKSIG is the most well known and, as its name implies, it
> > validates a signature.
> > In the new version of 'script' (version 2) the data that is signed is
> > changed to be equivalent to the transaction-id. This is a massive
> > simplification and also the only change between version 1 and version 2
> > of script.
> 
> I'm a fan of simplicity too; Unfortunately, your proposal above to change
> the semantics of OP_CHECKSIG is too naive.

Thanks for your email, Russell.

Unfortunately you waited 6 weeks with writing this and the problem you are 
seeing has been fixed quite some time ago.

Thanks again for reviewing, though!
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Tom Zander
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