[bitcoin-dev] Making OP_TRUE standard?

Jorge Timón jtimon at jtimon.cc
Thu May 10 09:33:30 UTC 2018


But in prnciple I don't oppose to making it stardard, just want to
understand what's the point.

On Thu, 10 May 2018, 02:16 Jorge Timón, <jtimon at jtimon.cc> wrote:

> I fail to see what's the practical difference between sending to op_true
> and giving the coins are fees directly. Perhaps it is ao obvious to you
> that you forget to mention it?
> If you did I honestlt missed it.
>
> On Wed, 9 May 2018, 01:58 Rusty Russell via bitcoin-dev, <
> bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>         The largest problem we are having today with the lightning
>> protocol is trying to predict future fees.  Eltoo solves this elegantly,
>> but meanwhile we would like to include a 546 satoshi OP_TRUE output in
>> commitment transactions so that we use minimal fees and then use CPFP
>> (which can't be done at the moment due to CSV delays on outputs).
>>
>> Unfortunately, we'd have to P2SH it at the moment as a raw 'OP_TRUE' is
>> non-standard.  Are there any reasons not to suggest such a policy
>> change?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Rusty.
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