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Topic: Enable OP-Codes & Scripting? (Read 1000 times)

staff
Activity: 4284
Merit: 8808
November 03, 2013, 01:27:56 PM
#10
Can anyone provide the history as to why the disabled opcodes were disabled in the first place?   Or were they simply never implemented?
The implementations were buggy.  In the case of the LSHIFT operator there was a remotely triggerable crash. All the operators that changed the sizes of types basically got disabled as a precautionary measure.
sr. member
Activity: 321
Merit: 250
November 03, 2013, 01:25:13 PM
#9
Can anyone provide the history as to why the disabled opcodes were disabled in the first place?   Or were they simply never implemented?
staff
Activity: 4284
Merit: 8808
November 03, 2013, 01:14:48 PM
#8
But they seem pretty useless, anyway.
alas, actually they're useful. With them you could validate a SPV proof for a cross chain txn, for example.
legendary
Activity: 1204
Merit: 1002
RUM AND CARROTS: A PIRATE LIFE FOR ME
November 03, 2013, 11:42:03 AM
#7
@Crazy_rabbit

Can or has terracoin loosen the isStandard() check?

I'm not the dev for Terracoin, and for the moment I'm not really involved in anything TRC related. :-/
legendary
Activity: 2053
Merit: 1356
aka tonikt
November 03, 2013, 11:10:15 AM
#6
Most of the opcodes are enabled - only these are disabled:
Code:
0x7e/*OP_CAT*/
0x7f/*OP_SUBSTR*/
0x80/*OP_LEFT*/
0x81/*OP_RIGHT*/
0x83/*OP_INVERT*/
0x84/*OP_AND*/
0x85/*OP_OR*/
0x86/*OP_XOR*/
0x8d/*OP_2MUL*/
0x8e/*OP_2DIV*/
0x95/*OP_MUL*/
0x96/*OP_DIV*/
0x97/*OP_MOD*/
0x98/*OP_LSHIFT*/
0x99/*OP_RSHIFT*/
But they seem pretty useless, anyway.

All the other opcodes should work fine, as soon as you manage to convince a miner to include such a tx for you, in a block.
I'd suggest bribing it, by leaving a decent fee - eventually they will realize that mining a non-standard txs might be a good business opportunity.
legendary
Activity: 1862
Merit: 1011
Reverse engineer from time to time
November 02, 2013, 08:33:42 PM
#5
Correct me if I am wrong, but don't most op-codes already work? Isn't like OP_CHECKSIG, OP_WHATNOT already used in Bitcoin? Aren't these op-codes?? And isn't that considered "scripting"?
newbie
Activity: 9
Merit: 0
November 02, 2013, 08:28:58 PM
#4
@Crazy_rabbit

Can or has terracoin loosen the isStandard() check?
legendary
Activity: 1120
Merit: 1160
January 30, 2013, 01:36:31 PM
#2
They are enabled already on Testnet so you can try your experiments there.
legendary
Activity: 1204
Merit: 1002
RUM AND CARROTS: A PIRATE LIFE FOR ME
January 30, 2013, 01:22:05 PM
#1
While I am a novice programmer, I am intrigued by the possibilities of scripting with Bitcoin but noticed that they are currently disabled, and I understand that most likely for good reason. Are there any thoughts about enabling them sometime soon? What would need to be done to enable them?
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