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Other => Beginners & Help => Topic started by: casey_bowman on June 13, 2011, 09:08:42 PM



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,
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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....