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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @KoinVote OP 12 Dec \ parent \ on: What happens when Bitcoiners start signaling with signatures? bitcoin
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.
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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