t I’m confused why this is introducing a whole new encoding for numbers, as opposed to just expanding how big the input values to the existing opcodes can be through e.g. an
OP_ENABLE64BIT
I don’t understand this. Little endian is a pretty conventional encoding system no? I think the goal should be to remove weirdness when possible in favor of conventional number systems. Could you link me to more information on this so I can read about it?
That would avoid duplicating all the opcodes (whose namespace isn’t infinite), and reduce possible confusion.
IMO, on the next witness version we should remove OP_ADD/OP_SUB/comparison ops and just force people to use 64 bit versions. That would remove confusion.