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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @OriginalSize 12 Dec \ on: What happens when Bitcoiners start signaling with signatures? bitcoin
put your money where your mouth is
That's what was pre-populated in this box as I began to answer.
And it's fitting because I don't think anything good or straightforward happens if people sign with keys holding value. One bad thing is that the public key has to be disclosed. Money talks because it's spent and people do stuff for it, not because it's displayed.
When you put money on a candidate,
you’re expressing a belief that they will win.
When you submit a signed message,
you’re expressing a preference for who you want to win.
Those are two completely different signals.
Both are valid, but they answer different questions.
And just to clarify,
a signed message does not require you to reveal your public key.
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How does a signature link then to an address?
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Good question.
In Bitcoin message signing, the signer doesn’t submit their public key explicitly.
During verification, the public key can be recovered from the signature and
hashed to check that it matches the provided address.
So the link comes from public key recovery during verification,
not from the signer publishing their public key.
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