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Where Is Signature Data Stored In Post-SegWit Transactions?
From the perspective of new post-segwit nodes, the witness data is part of the transaction data. It is serialized in a new field, after all the transaction outputs, before the locktime field.
However, ...
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Why does `OP_CHECKSIGADD` allow TAPROOT keyspends?
It's not; that option is unreachable.
In SigVersion::TAPROOT mode, there is no script to speak of, so the script interpreter is never invoked with it. See line 417 where this is asserted.
The line you ...
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Is bitcoin script necessary?
was it necessary to have another language for these operations? isn't it possible to write the whole runtime in one language?
It is possible to have one language for bitcoin implementation and use ...
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Is bitcoin script necessary?
was it necessary to have another language for these operations? isn't it possible to write the whole runtime in one language?
To be clear: the goal of the scripting language isn't for defining the ...
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Is bitcoin script necessary?
It is theoretically possible that Satoshi could have taken the entire C++ language (Bitcoin Core is written in C++) and then severely restricted what C++ functionality was available for Bitcoin ...
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Is bitcoin script necessary?
Consider a script that says
While (true) {
// some pointless but slow calculation
}
in order to discover if the transaction containing it is valid, every node on the network has to run this ...
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Bitcoin and Smart Contracts
Some options:
Bitcoin Computer (https://www.bitcoincomputer.io/):
Bitcoin Computer is an easy to use smart contract system for Bitcoin.
Elements:
Elements is a general purpose blockchain platform ...
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How do I extract the address from a scriptPubKey?
With library https://github.com/petertodd/python-bitcoinlib
a P2WPKH address derivation example:
from bitcoin import SelectParams
from bitcoin.core import x
from bitcoin.core.script import CScript
...
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Can transactions include a negative output value, an empty sigScript or an empty scriptPubKey and still meet consensus rules?
To add to Claris' answer something that confused me in the empty scriptPubKey case that was explained to me on IRC this week.
None of the explicitly defined output types thus far (P2PK, P2PKH, P2SH, ...
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