Mention potential fixes for transaction malleability

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Florian Schmaus 2017-07-12 17:14:42 +02:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -754,8 +754,10 @@ when the output from a transaction is spent before that transaction is
added to the block chain.
Bitcoin developers have been working to reduce transaction malleability
among standard transaction types, but a complete fix is still only in
the planning stages. At present, new transactions should not depend on
among standard transaction types, one outcome of those efforts is
[BIP 141: Segregated Witness](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0141.mediawiki),
which is supported by Bitcoin Core but not activated. At present, new
transactions should not depend on
previous transactions which have not been added to the block chain yet,
especially if large amounts of satoshis are at stake.