Rusty Russell joined Brink engineers to discuss the motivation behind, and details of, his Great Script Restoration soft fork proposal.
In this discussion, we covered:
- Background and motivation for the Great Script Restoration proposal
- The sigops budget, and its relation to varops
- Benchmarking models
- A command-line tool to analyze a script’s varops budget
- Fast and slow operations
- Discussion of Satoshi’s original opcode selection
- Current implementation progress
- Addressing denial-of-service vectors in script more generally
- The draft BIP and next steps for GSR
A recording of the discussion is provided below.
This discussion was recorded on August 9, 2024.
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