On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 2:40 AM Greg Maxwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't even think bitcoin has ever policy restricted something that was > in active use, much less softforked out something like that. > I invite the Bitcore lore experts to correct me here, but I recall someone many years ago finding that their bare multisig funds (likely related to the Counterparty nonsense) were stuck by policy due to some new policy being enacted to mandate that pubkeys in bare multisigs must now all be on-curve points ... or something like that. I do hope that they managed to get their funds recovered by now with direct miner intervention. I really ought to vet my claim above by going through my IRC logs and Bitcoin development history ... but a quicker way is to post a claim publicly on the internet and wait for someone else to call it out as being wrong. Also, I think this type of policy change quite harmful and shouldn't be replicated, and ideally reverted, assuming my story is correct. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Bitcoin Development Mailing List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bitcoindev/CAMZUoKnyYpfJ1fZRan7BzyGvMitxznoSyCXkjxc2Qy5Z9pNvMA%40mail.gmail.com.
