I'm looking for a way to store information (few bytes) in a Tezos transaction, on BTC I'm using OP_RETURN field but is there a similar field in Tezos transactions ?
It depends on what you're trying to do. Are you sending these transactions to anyone? To a specific address?
In the most general case, you could take advantage of the fact that Tezos transactions are batches by default. Whenever you create a transaction, you would add another transaction to the operation that passes a bit of information to a smart-contract. The smart-contract itself need not do anything with that information, it can just drop it and return, for example:
parameter bytes;
storage unit;
code {CDR; NIL operation; PAIR};
Support for batch operations is currently lacking in the command-line interface, but here's a blog post explaining how you can create them with RPC calls
This will do the job but it wouldn't be a bad idea to add native support for a memo field in transactions in future protocol versions.
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I'm trying to send these transactions to a specific address in order to keep a trace of the memo content. Currently I'm evaluating two possibilities, either adding this memo in a transaction or record it into a dedicated smart contract – tiamat May 5 '20 at 6:36
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As a rule of thumb, it's a good idea not to record any data on the chain unless the validity of a future transaction will depend on that data. If all you need is to track that it happened, you may just as well pass that data as a parameter to your transactions but not store it. – Arthur B May 5 '20 at 7:03
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indeed, this is the reason why I'm looking for the best way to pass data as parameter ;-) – tiamat May 5 '20 at 8:44
