Peter Todd [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2023-02-07 🗒️ Summary of this message: Uncompressed ...

📅 Original date posted:2023-02-07
🗒️ Summary of this message: Uncompressed keys can cause "surprise" witness inflation, but since segwit uncompressed keys are banned, so keys are a fixed 33 bytes.
📝 Original message:On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 01:46:22PM +0000, Andrew Poelstra via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Peter Todd also suggests in this thread that the use of uncompressed
> keys can cause "surprise" witness inflation, but (a) since segwit
> uncompressed keys are also banned, so keys are a fixed 33 bytes (32 in
> Taproot)

To be clear, I was just pointing out that this problem has existed, in theory
at least, since the beginning of Bitcoin (compressed pubkeys were supported in
v0.1.0). P2PKH addresses are the pre-P2SH ones that start with 1.

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