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Thanks for sharing some objections. Here is my attempt at addressing them.
> ISTM even something as simple as a rate-limit requires more full-featured=
introspection than only
> "commit to the exact next transaction" can provide. For example, a trivia=
l construction would be
> something which requires that transactions spending an output have an out=
put which claims at least
> Amount - Rate, which requires both more full-featured introspection as we=
ll as a bit of math.
Yes. These capabilities are really only useful for reducing interactivity i=
n second-layer protocols.
They do not (reasonably) help for vaults and we do not claim it as a use ca=
se.
Previous efforts to promote opcodes implementing those capabilities have un=
fortunately fallen into
the trap of overpromising and claiming use cases they do not really enable.=
But this should not make
us overlook what they are really good at: interactivity reduction.
Do you think that the use cases presented in OP, if demonstrated, are not e=
nough to warrant soft
forking in a primitive enabling them?
> Given one of the loudest groups advocating for the additional features of=
CTV+CSFS are enterprise
> or large-value personal custody providers
Yes. We intentionally do not mention vaults as a use case in our steelman. =
We should not change
Bitcoin on the basis of misleading use cases. If people are interested in v=
aults, they should
sponsor efforts on a different set of capabilities. Probably "programmable =
forwarding of value from
inputs to outputs", "programmable forwarding of spending conditions from in=
puts to outputs" and maybe
"commit to the exact transaction spending an output" (or more powerful intr=
ospection).
The lack of a similar enthusiasm for proposals enabling most or all of thes=
e functionalities (like
Salvatore Ingala's BIP334 or previously James O'Beirne's and Greg Sanders' =
BIP345) suggests such
loud support are in fact in favour of "just doing something" and rationaliz=
e nice-sounding use cases
backward from this proposal (but vaults!) because it appears to them to be =
"further down the road".
I think this view is very dangerous and is part of our motivation for redir=
ecting discussions toward
what these capabilities actually enable.
> it seems somewhat of a loss to not work our way towards really basic feat=
ures for this use-case.
I personally grew more skeptical of the reactive security model of vaults a=
fter working on it. Your
mileage may vary and that's fine if people want to work on capabilities tha=
t actually enable vaults,
but i don't think they should be a required use cases and block introducing=
primitives that
substantially improve existing layer 2s and make new ones possible.
> Indeed, ISTM many use-cases for a construction like TXHASH become a lot m=
ore substantial with Math
> [...], I'm quite skeptical that *just* looking at an individual fork on i=
ts own is the right
> benchmark.
I agree that modularity and forward composability with potential future upg=
rades are arguments in
favour of a more flexible approach. But those need to be balanced with the =
additional risk and
implementation complexity such an approach entails. I'm happy to be convinc=
ed if supporters of this
approach demonstrate the added flexibility does enable important use cases =
and the risks associated
are manageable. But if nobody is interested in doing so, i don't think it's=
reasonable to hold off a
safer upgrade as long as it is demonstrated to provide substantial benefits=
.
It's also unclear that we should stop at "programmable introspection" in th=
is case. Why not also
include "programmable amount / spending condition forwarding" too, which wo=
uld give you vaults? Why
not even CAT, which is a neat tool in many situations and would let ZK peop=
le experiment with
validation rollups? And at this point, it would seem wiser to just work on =
a sane Bitcoin Script
replacement rather than throwing buckets of opcodes at it and hoping it hol=
ds off. Which as we say
in OP i don't think is realistic.
> I don't see how this results in a net reduction in risk to Bitcoin, rathe=
r just means more total
> work and more cruft in Bitcoin's consensus.
In theory, i agree. But by this token the same goes for every future extens=
ion that introduces more
expressivity to Bitcoin Script. This ties back to the stopping point: why a=
dd more cruft to the
existing interpreter when we could all focus on BTCLisp instead?
It's also the case that even if future extensions introduce a superset of t=
he capabilities being
discussed, it's unlikely that such simple ones like "just commit to the nex=
t transaction" and
"verify a signature for an arbitrary message" would ever be made fully redu=
ndant.
Finally, when considering technical debt we should also weigh the actual co=
st of the implementation
of these simple capabilities. Signature verification on arbitrary message r=
euses existing signature
checking logic. Similarly, committing to the next transaction can heavily l=
ean on existing Taproot
signature messages, only minimally departing when necessary, and be impleme=
nted in a strictly
simpler manner than the existing CTV proposal. A minimal implementation of =
these capabilities would
not introduce significant technical debt.
Interestingly, this argument applies more to introducing more involved capa=
bilities like arbitrary
transaction introspection, because of the substantially larger technical de=
bt it would impose to
first support in Bitcoin Script instead of focusing on a replacement with t=
ransaction introspection
from the get go.
> Indeed, more flexible introspection provides for a difference in risk to =
the system (though its
> worth noting we cannot both argue that there is no "demonstrated utility"=
*and* that the utility
> of a change is so substantially higher that it adds material risk to the =
system in the form of
> MEVil from its use-cases).
Yes we can? It's reasonable to see how arbitrary introspection could be use=
ful in various handwavy
ways, and therefore how they can be used for undesirable applications, whil=
e also not having an
important use case it enables clearly defined, much less demonstrated.
> However, given the uses of the Bitcoin chain today, it seems entirely pos=
sible (assuming
> sufficient adoption) that we end up with a substantial MEVil risk with or=
without any
> functionality expansion.
Sure, but I=E2=80=99d argue that the presence of risk now is a reason to be=
more cautious about adding to
it, rather than accepting it as inevitable.
Best,
Antoine
On Tuesday, June 24th, 2025 at 12:00 PM, Matt Corallo <lf-lists@mattcorallo=
.com> wrote:
>=20
>=20
> Thanks, responding to one specific point:
>=20
> On 6/23/25 9:14 AM, 'Antoine Poinsot' via Bitcoin Development Mailing Lis=
t wrote:
>=20
> > Yet another alternative is a set of more powerful capabilities, enablin=
g the use cases that "commit to next transaction"
> > and "verify a BIP340 signature for an arbitrary message" enable and mor=
e. For instance replacing "commit to the exact
> > transaction which must spend this output" with "programmable introspect=
ion on the spending transaction's fields" has
> > been considered. However this approach increases implementation complex=
ity and broadens the risk surface[^8]
>=20
>=20
> Responded to below [1]
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> > which
> > warrants a compelling demonstration that arbitrary transaction introspe=
ction does enable important use cases not
> > achievable with more minimal capabilities.
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> I'm somewhat skeptical that showing this isn't rather simple, though I ad=
mit I've spent less time
> thinking about these concepts. ISTM even something as simple as a rate-li=
mit requires more
> full-featured introspection than only "commit to the exact next transacti=
on" can provide. For
> example, a trivial construction would be something which requires that tr=
ansactions spending an
> output have an output which claims at least Amount - Rate, which requires=
both more full-featured
> introspection as well as a bit of math. Given one of the loudest groups a=
dvocating for the
> additional features of CTV+CSFS are enterprise or large-value personal cu=
stody providers, it seems
> somewhat of a loss to not work our way towards really basic features for =
this use-case.
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> More generally, more full-featured introspection like TXHASH provides a l=
ot of flexibility in the
> constructs people can build. For example, allowing BYO fees in the form o=
f an additional input +
> output in a transaction, rather than fixing an anchor output in the fixed=
"next transaction"
> commitment to allow for fees (and then requiring the same additional inpu=
t + output later). There's
> also open questions as to the incentive-compatibility of anchors in a wor=
ld with expensive block
> space, as OOB fees become much cheaper.
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> Indeed, ISTM many use-cases for a construction like TXHASH become a lot m=
ore substantial with Math
> (though, again, I spend less time thinking about the use-cases of these t=
hings than most, so I'm
> sure others have more examples), I'm quite skeptical that just looking at=
an individual fork on
> its own is the right benchmark. Sure, functionality in proposed changes t=
o Bitcoin's consensus need
> to be well-justified, but they don't need to be well-justified purely on =
their own. We add things
> like OP_SUCCESS opcodes in soft forks specifically to expand the set of t=
hings we can do later, not
> specifically in this fork.
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> If we assume that we end up wanting things like velocity limits (which I =
imagine we would?) then it
> seems to me we should do a logical fork that adds features today, but whi=
ch will allow us to make
> minimal extensions in the future to further expand its use-cases later. T=
aking a more myopic view of
> the present and ignoring the future results in us doing one thing today, =
then effectively replacing
> it later by adding more flexibility in a new opcode later, subsuming the =
features of what we do
> today. I don't see how this results in a net reduction in risk to Bitcoin=
, rather just means more
> total work and more cruft in Bitcoin's consensus.
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> [1]
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> Responding to the MEVil question OOO because I think the above should go =
first :).
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> Indeed, more flexible introspection provides for a difference in risk to =
the system (though its
> worth noting we cannot both argue that there is no "demonstrated utility"=
and that the utility of
> a change is so substantially higher that it adds material risk to the sys=
tem in the form of MEVil
> from its use-cases). However, given the uses of the Bitcoin chain today, =
it seems entirely possible
> (assuming sufficient adoption) that we end up with a substantial MEVil ri=
sk with or without any
> functionality expansion. This mandates a response from the Bitcoin develo=
pment community in either
> case, and I'm confident that response can happen faster than any reasonab=
le soft fork timeline.
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> While its possible that existing CSV-based MEVil risk never grows beyond =
its current anemic state
> (due to preferences for stronger trust models from their users), and that=
there's a particularly
> clever design using expanded introspection that improves the trust model =
such that suddenly
> CSV-based protocol use explodes, ISTM given the risk and the need to miti=
gate it on its own, taking
> decisions that are sub-optimal for Bitcoin's consensus on this basis isn'=
t accomplishing much and
> has real costs.
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> Matt
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