On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 5:05 AM, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Now this would want to have some selling words for it? I do not see an advantage of this patch as-is. I mean technically we don't need a sign, so we use that extra bit to be able to process transactions up to twice the size. But I doubt that is the real reason. I'll read on, maybe a later patch will explain why we do this here. Stefan