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charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Probabilistic collisions, while present, would be statistically insignifica= nt at 4 chars length. Implementation by wallets would just require a loop of their existing addre= ss generation until a match is found, trivial to implement. Wallets could p= rovide a dropdown which shows the most commonly used signals as seen on the= block chain, or a write-in. Signalling within OP_RETURN increases the tx size and cost. This address ha= shing method keeps the very small economic cost of voting off the chain, ra= ther than passing it cumulatively to everyone with the insertion of additio= nal data. Since I wrote this I have come across a similar idea called CryptoVoter whi= ch I think deserves more attention than it has had. ________________________________ From: Natanael Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2017 4:22 PM To: Bitcoin Dev; John Hardy Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Transaction signalling through output address ha= shing Censorship by miners isn't the only problem. Existing and normal transactio= ns will probabilistically collide with these schemes, and most wallets have= no straightforward way of supporting it. --_000_BL2PR03MB435DEA7CFB526C4DB58F740EE410BL2PR03MB435namprd_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Probabilistic collisions, while present, would be statisticall= y insignificant at 4 chars length.


Implementation by wallets would just require a loop of their existing ad= dress generation until a match is found, trivial to implement. Wallets coul= d provide a dropdown which shows the most commonly used signals as seen on = the block chain, or a write-in.

Signalling within OP_RETURN increases the tx size and cost. This address ha= shing method keeps the very small economic cost of voting off the chain, ra= ther than passing it cumulatively to everyone with the insertion of additio= nal data.


Since I wrote this I have come across a similar idea called CryptoVoter = which I think deserves more attention than it has had.


From: Natanael <natanael= .l@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2017 4:22 PM
To: Bitcoin Dev; John Hardy
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Transaction signalling through output add= ress hashing

Censorship by miners isn't the only problem. Existing and= normal transactions will probabilistically collide with these schemes, and= most wallets have no straightforward way of supporting it. 
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