BUIP095: BCH November upgrade - CHECKDATASIG & CHECKDATASIGVERIFY
Proposer: Andrew Clifford (@solex)
Submitted on: 2018-08-14
Status: passed
Bitcoin Cash is advancing through decentralized development. Perhaps this was easier early-on, but now the dust has settled from the fork and a year has passed, there are many different voices pushing and pulling development priorities. The upcoming 15 November 2018 general upgrade is a major event, hence it would help if Bitcoin Unlimited, as an organization, had an official position on the major elements of the upgrade. This position is determined by the membership.
The purpose of the BUIP is to determine whether the BU membership supports creating the following new op codes in the scheduled November upgrade (this is a forking change).
Create new op codes:
OP_CHECKDATASIG and OP_CHECKDATASIGVERIFY
For further information, see:
- https://www.yours.org/content/the-story-of-op_checkdatasig-f79679d52b23 (article by @mengerian)
- bitcoincashorg/bitcoincash.org#93 OP_CHECKDATASIG{VERIFY} specification pull request
For previous community discussion see:
N/A
BU does not desire unintended forks in the BCH blockchain, so the BU client will remain compatible with the final specification of the November upgrade.