Understanding and Mitigating a OP_CTV Footgun: The Unsatisfiable UTXO

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@gmaxwell

I pointed this out to the authors years ago as yet another example why the CTV approach is simply a bad design.

If you want an absolute spec on things then sure, you’re going to have some footguns. But the actual covenants people want are almost always far more specific and limited and don’t imply such a footgun. But CTV forces any usage to be footgunny, because it doesn’t allow for a less expansive covenant.

I think some of these concerns were answered in this bitcointalk thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5220520.msg53710072#msg53710072

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Understanding and Mitigating a OP_CTV Footgun: The Unsatisfiable UTXO