Lol, Tim Ruffing did a funny and I don't think anyone noticed:
[1] It's so bad, we can't even agree on a spelling. BIP340 spells it "X-only", some people write "x-only", and some write "xonly", probably in order to save a byte
😆
https://github.com/jonasnick/bips/issues/32#issuecomment-1177725159
ahahah, good joke. I don't know if anyone can read such an enormous thread and still be alive in order to notice it, so, yes, I think no one did.
I've been working on FROST+taproot lately and the xonly nonsense easily accounts for 90% of the complexity.
https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/frost/pull/584
I'd be curious if anyone has actually done the math to compute how much xonly has saved us in block space.
...only for the inscription meme lords to slide in and use 100x that space for jpegs.
