“It Might Be Hard Explaining Future Devs Why We Did These Things With OP_CAT” Says BIP Author
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Armin Sabouri put a dent in the hype surrounding the script, even though he authored the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal. As builders continue to test out the Satoshi-era opcode, prominent Bitcoin community members say the code, known as OP_CAT, has verbose scripting language that may add risk to the oldest blockchain. Even one of the authors behind the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal to add OP_CAT says the code is only part of what the network needs. “CAT” offers the opportunity to build really powerful features in Bitcoin “in the least invasive way,” but it’s still limited, Armin Sabouri, CTO of Bitcoin Layer 2 Botanix Labs, said in an interview. “I’d be in favor of activated CAT plus something else,” he said. His voice dampens some of the hype surrounding OP_CAT, even though builders continue to experiment with the still-defunct code. Sabouri co-authored BIP 347, which seeks to activate OP_CAT into the Bitcoin network after Satoshi removed it back in 2011. Expanding Support The more critical perspective for the upgrade comes as the code slowly makes its way through the Bitcoin ecosystem. Ordinal’s wallet Xverse revealed on June 12 that it’s expanding support for Bitcoin’s Signet testnet, which will enable testing experimental features, including OP_CAT. Meanwhile, one of Ethereum’s main scaling solutions, StarkWare, is also putting its chips in OP_CAT as it plans to help scale Bitcoin. “OP_CAT is good for everyone,” Bob Bodily, CEO of Bioniq, a Bitcoin Ordinals marketplace, said in an interview. But, he added, it has a “super verbose way of writing script,” which might frighten byte-conscientious developers. Attack Vectors That said, concerns about attack vectors –which Satoshi voiced back in 2011– may be overstated, while it would allow for Bitcoin to scale up to 40 multiples its current capacity, according to Bodily. In 2019, one of the authors…
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