CTV+CSFS: Can we reach consensus on a first step towards covenants?

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@stevenroose

I find is quite disingenuous when people point to the lack of implementations as an argument against a protocol upgrade. First of all, there were 0 implementations of taproot when it was deployed, but more generally, we cannot expect our developer ecosystem to be building on features we are still pondering to even add or not. Most of us can’t afford to spend months building something that in the best case will have to be shelved for another two years and worst case will be thrown out entirely.

Appealing to history means you can only convince people perhaps that taproot wasn’t vetted enough. Valid argument to be made (I’m sympathetic to it, really), but I don’t think it will persuade people the integration testing bar should be the same 7 years later.

With regards to the latter point, there’s a lot of potential distance between “blog posts” and “fully production ready integrations”. Pushing this effort forward probably involves getting people to demonstrate in specification and end to end PoC code which is firmly between the two ends.