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Dev Docs: Remove security confusion from P2SH intro
Somebody thought the paragraph being revised in this commit implied that P2SH was implemented because P2PKH had security problems: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/36695/21052
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Pubkey scripts are created by spenders who have little interest in the
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Pubkey scripts are created by spenders who have little interest what
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long-term security or usefulness of the particular satoshis they're
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that script does. Receivers do care about the script conditions and, if
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currently spending. Receivers do care about the conditions imposed on
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they want, they can ask spenders to use a particular pubkey script.
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the satoshis by the pubkey script and, if they want, they can ask
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Unfortunately, custom pubkey scripts are less convenient than short
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spenders to use a particular pubkey script. Unfortunately, custom
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Bitcoin addresses and there was no standard way to communicate them
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pubkey scripts are less convenient than short Bitcoin addresses and more
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between programs prior to widespread implementation of the BIP70 Payment
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difficult to secure than P2PKH pubkey hashes.
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Protocol discussed later.
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To solve these problems, pay-to-script-hash
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To solve these problems, pay-to-script-hash
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([P2SH][]{:#term-p2sh}{:.term}) transactions were created in 2012 to let
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([P2SH][]{:#term-p2sh}{:.term}) transactions were created in 2012 to let
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