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-Pubkey scripts are created by spenders who have little interest in the
-long-term security or usefulness of the particular satoshis they're
-currently spending. Receivers do care about the conditions imposed on
-the satoshis by the pubkey script and, if they want, they can ask
-spenders to use a particular pubkey script. Unfortunately, custom
-pubkey scripts are less convenient than short Bitcoin addresses and more
-difficult to secure than P2PKH pubkey hashes.
+Pubkey scripts are created by spenders who have little interest what
+that script does. Receivers do care about the script conditions and, if
+they want, they can ask spenders to use a particular pubkey script.
+Unfortunately, custom pubkey scripts are less convenient than short
+Bitcoin addresses and there was no standard way to communicate them
+between programs prior to widespread implementation of the BIP70 Payment
+Protocol discussed later.
 
 To solve these problems, pay-to-script-hash
 ([P2SH][]{:#term-p2sh}{:.term}) transactions were created in 2012 to let