The bitcoin protocol is purposefully imperfect.
Few know this.
#bitcoin
Fields the transaction did not carry are omitted. Open the payload to see the bytes as stored.
1JhKv5bs1wpHRYFAQS4qF5zhKfAnXAy2UL VerifiedYou can’t have perfect security in an open society!
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BTC and BCH, for example, are working constantly to find a perfect implementation that always does exactly what they want it to do. This is why they fail.
BSV has flexibility which allows economic actors to flex the implementation to their needs.
A similar example could be a Glock or an AK47, which are designed to be purposefully imprecise and assembled in such a way where it is loose tolerances so that unknown circumstances don't make them malfunction.
Too much precision makes a tool unreliable.
Thoughts on the presence of a "version" byte built into the original design?
Not sure what you mean. Can you clarify?