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Lamport signatures and other CAT tricks

Lamport signatures and other CAT tricks

Original Postby moonsettler

Posted on: December 5, 2023 15:06 UTC

The email suggests an interest in developing a script functionality similar to Pay to Script Hash (P2SH) or Pay to Witness Script Hash (P2WSH), with features that emulate Tapscript's upgradeability and relaxed limitations.

Tapscript is associated with the Bitcoin Taproot upgrade, which provides improvements in privacy, efficiency, and smart contract capabilities on the Bitcoin network. The sender is expressing a desire to see these kinds of advancements in script capabilities, indicating a call for innovation that could potentially offer more flexibility and functionality for developers working with cryptocurrency protocols.

By aiming to combine aspects of P2SH/P2WSH with the benefits observed in Tapscript, the goal would be to create a system that supports more complex transactions while maintaining or enhancing ease of upgrade and deployment. This reflects a broader trend within the cryptocurrency development community where there is continuous search for optimization and improvement of existing frameworks to meet evolving needs and overcome current limitations.