tegila on Nostr: Haha, it was done to enable signature aggregation aka Schnorr signatures to combine ...

Haha, it was done to enable signature aggregation aka Schnorr signatures to combine multiple signatures into one single proof.

https://medium.com/badger-blockchain/schnorr-signatures-following-in-the-steps-of-segwit-a4c515c02e22

Had seen long threads talking about the implications in removing the sign bit but had to record some of them.