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Title: Additional data possible in any transaction Post by: casey_bowman on June 13, 2011, 09:08:42 PM Reading the wiki page on scripts and the protocol specification today, I was glad to find out,
Quote It's possible to add arbitrary data to any transaction by just adding some data along with OP_DROP. It could be handy to be able to add a hash when needed.Title: Re: Additional data possible in any transaction Post by: casey_bowman on June 13, 2011, 09:14:14 PM Here are the sources I've found -
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script) https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification) Are there any other good sources of information for the Bitcoin protocol? Title: Re: Additional data possible in any transaction Post by: yk on June 13, 2011, 10:30:49 PM Interesting, you could embed information which has a timestamp and is signed by all following blocks :) Don't know what use this is at the moment.
For more information on bitcoin, there is the paper by Satoshi Nakamoto, "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System", http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf (http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf) which I try to understand at the moment. Title: Re: Additional data possible in any transaction Post by: casey_bowman on June 13, 2011, 11:44:23 PM Yes, I was thinking of a timestamp, or two....
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