From rusty at rustcorp.com.au  Tue Nov 24 03:30:19 2015
From: rusty at rustcorp.com.au (Rusty Russell)
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:00:19 +1030
Subject: [Lightning-dev] Better privacy with SNARKs
In-Reply-To: <20151120074415.GA24674@navy>
References: <20151120074415.GA24674@navy>
Message-ID: <87y4dojcqc.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>

Anthony Towns <aj at erisian.com.au> writes:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:05:46PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> With the segregated witness proposal, introducing new opcodes is easy,
>> so maybe someone would find a reason to prefer open-coding it like this?
>
> I don't follow how segregated witness makes new opcodes any easier?

I didn't either, and that's because it's slightly orthogonal.

The proposal I heard is that the first byte of SW script is a version
byte, and if you don't understand that version, the script succeeds.

Cheers,
Rusty.