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From: Adam Back <adam.back@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 02:29:55 +0100
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Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] SF proposal: prohibit unspendable outputs with
	amount=0
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The pattern used by Felix Weiss' BIP for Confidential Transactions
depends on or is tidier with 0-value outputs.

Adam


On 7 September 2017 at 00:54, CryptAxe via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> As long as an unspendable outputs (OP_RETURN outputs for example) with
> amount=3D0 are still allowed I don't see it being an issue for anything.
>
> On Sep 5, 2017 2:52 PM, "Jorge Tim=C3=B3n via bitcoin-dev"
> <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> This is not a priority, not very important either.
>> Right now it is possible to create 0-value outputs that are spendable
>> and thus stay in the utxo (potentially forever). Requiring at least 1
>> satoshi per output doesn't really do much against a spam attack to the
>> utxo, but I think it would be slightly better than the current
>> situation.
>>
>> Is there any reason or use case to keep allowing spendable outputs
>> with null amounts in them?
>>
>> If not, I'm happy to create a BIP with its code, this should be simple.
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