💯 on datacarriersize. We were told the witness discount was going to make spending inputs much cheaper than creating new UTXOs. This follows from the presumption that the only real use for the extension block was going to be signatures. That was obviously wrong. Makes me wonder if this supposed benefit was just motivated reasoning by some, and a political ploy to give the big blockers what they wanted without losing face.

I have another objection to a covenant softfork in the near term that I did not hear in your video. Taproot promised more private multisigs with a smaller footprint. It is only very recently, 3 years since activation, that the actual cryptographic protocols have been developed and proven safe. Who knows how long until we have usable software and how long until any real adoption?

I’m not objecting to the time it takes to break new ground. It is what it is and developers don’t owe me anything. It’s the false marketing I object to. Why should I believe any promises about CTV when Taproot has failed to deliver on its promises?