64 bit arithmetic soft fork

Protocol Design
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  1. I think it would be a (potentially big) waste of chainspace to move from minimally encoded numbers to fixed-length 64 bit numbers. Minimal encodings may be somewhat cumbersome to deal with, but they’re there for a reason!
  2. The only thing worse than dealing with one weird encoding is having to implement another one alongside it. CScriptNum parsing will probably always be a part of wallet software, if not just to validate legacy scripts.
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