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On Wednesday, June 08, 2016 8:23:51 AM Johnson Lau wrote:
> If someday 32 bytes hash is deemed to be unsafe, the txid would also be
> unsafe and a hard fork might be needed. Therefore, I don=E2=80=99t see ho=
w a
> witness program larger than 40 bytes would be useful in any case (as it is
> more expensive and takes more UTXO space). I think Pieter doesn=E2=80=99t=
 want to
> make it unnecessarily lenient.

There is no harm in being lenient, but it limits the ability to do softfork=
=20
upgrades in the future. I appreciate Pieter's concern that we'd need to do=
=20
more development and testing to go to this extreme, which is why I am only=
=20
asking the limit raised to 75 bytes.

Luke