Thank you all for your comments. The youtube video was indeed very
educative and nice to watch.
It's true that malleability is not the end of the world, but it is
annoying for contracts and micropayment channels, especially refunds
spending the fund tx before it is even in the blockchain, relying
Hi William,
I personally prefer this solution, since it nails the problem
completely with one simple and obvious change. The BIP 62 approach is
more like a game of wac-a-mole.
The two are complementary, not competing. BIP62 prevents *non-signers* from
mutating the transactions, which is very
Hi Gregory,
In particular not covering the ID allows for transaction replay which
can result in monetary losses far more severe than any possible
mishandling of malleability could result in. Byzantine attackers can
costlessly replay your old transactions any time anyone reuses an
address,
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