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Allow burning inscriptions #1333

Open casey opened 1 year ago

casey commented 1 year ago

It should be possible to burn inscriptions, to indicate that they can't be traded or transferred.

Add a subcommand ord wallet burn INSCRIPTION_ID which takes an inscrpition and sends it to an OP_RETURN. It should strip it down to the minimum size and return any postage to the user. Since the intention is to burn a sat, it the output size should be 1, not zero.

This should also allow including either an arbitrary UTF-8 string payload, or an arbitrary binary payload, and mark which one it is so they can be displayed correctly.

batcavekid commented 1 year ago

Suggest confirmation step (eg. re-enter inscription string like deleting a GitHub repo). But, I guess that's interactive and thus bad for automation. Maybe ok without conf for CLI client...

casey commented 1 year ago

In general I don't think confirmation steps are a good idea for CLI tools. We let the user toast zillions of sats using --fee-rate 100 on a 1 meg inscriptions, or send 10 BTC, with no confirmation. For consistency, and to make sure that users don't expect a confirmation step when there is none, I don't think we should add any to the CLI.

batcavekid commented 1 year ago

Makes sense, warning would be more useful in a gui.

batcavekid commented 1 year ago

Like burn idea.

Is "scrub" as an alternative to "burn" possible? Meaning, for a mutable inscription user would have 2 options:

Particularly if it is a rare sat, user may want to clean the sat of inscriptions and keep it, or re-inscribe it, rather than burning.

If immutability is implemented later (eg. via burning the Collection (Prime) Sats), there would be no option to scrub subordinate sats, only burn them.

onchainguy-btc commented 4 months ago

New burn PR = #3437