Anthony Towns

> > Fun challenge for everyone: can you link to a specific bare multisig UTXO that has been created within the past year (let's say, since block 769785) where the...

> So this would make all current and future STAMPS unspendable? Or just future ones? How would this affect other potential legitimate use cases? Most STAMPS txs are spendable and...

> > and are thus provably unspendable about 50% of the time as the data doesn't match a valid secp point. > > Sorry for not understanding this, but why...

Implements [this comment](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/20715#discussion_r555574662) from when these commands were introduced originally. Main motivation is that I'd like to add a new subcommand to `bitcoin-util` unrelated to the existing `grind` functionality, and...

> Motivation for this change is that the util library is a dependency of the kernel, and we should remove functionality from util that shouldn't be called by kernel code...

> > > Motivation for this change is that the util library is a dependency of the kernel, and we should remove functionality from util that shouldn't be called by...

Would it make sense to just merge common into util; but have a "stripped" version of util available for the kernel, that excludes stuff that doesn't match the 5 points...

At the end of this sequence of patches the `VersionBitsCache` object provides a standalone interface to all the "versionbits" features needed by bitcoin core, which means that if the BIP9/speedy...

This patch has been included in bitcoin-inquisition for a few releases (https://github.com/bitcoin-inquisition/bitcoin/pull/5, https://github.com/bitcoin-inquisition/bitcoin/pull/15 and https://github.com/bitcoin-inquisition/bitcoin/pull/31). I used the same technique when in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/23536#pullrequestreview-872777718 and found it helpful.

> Ah, #10730 "When we last discussed making scripts debuggable" -- this and #28802 are prereqs for "bitcoin-util evalscript" which I'm poking at on https://github.com/ajtowns/bitcoin/commits/202309-evalscript . Real debugging seems better...