[Lightning-dev] OP_CHECKSPVPROOFVERIFY

[Eric Lombrozo]

I’m not entirely clear on how you intended to use OP_CAT.

I was thinking something along the lines of

<block hash> <partial merkle tree for transaction> <transaction> OP_CHECKSPVPROOFVERIFY OP_DROP



- Eric


> On Jul 29, 2015, at 6:19 PM, Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Eric Lombrozo <elombrozo at gmail.com> writes:
>> I don’t know if anyone has done any research or published anything in
>> this regard, but one of the major issues with bitcoin I’ve been trying
>> to solve is how to properly incentivize nodes to construct SPV proofs.
> 
> This can almost be done via P2SH, but not quite:
> 
> 1) OP_CAT is disabled :(
> 2) The txlen limit might bite, I'd have to do the maths.
> 
> Cheers,
> Rusty.

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