From 62331bbbb6dbb6335b3c61bc9428fa76b7a77fcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kris Nuttycombe Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 11:19:14 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add decoupling of wire format from consensus rules to motivation. --- zip-0244.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/zip-0244.rst b/zip-0244.rst index 178fa77a..9782f363 100644 --- a/zip-0244.rst +++ b/zip-0244.rst @@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ of this proposed change, transaction identifiers will be stable irrespective of any possible malleation of "witness data" such as proofs and transaction signatures. +In addition, by specifying a transaction identifier and signature algorithm +that is decoupled from the serialized format of the transaction as a whole, +this change makes it so that the wire format of transactions is no longer +consensus-critical. + ============ Requirements ============