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Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin

Episode 74: Pay-to-Script-Hash (P2SH)

Mar 17, 2023
43:24

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, Aaron and Sjors explain pay-to-script-hash (P2SH), which allows bitcoin to be sent to and from the hash of a script. Besides (the current implementation of) P2SH itself, Aaron and Sjors also discuss some alternatives that were proposed around the time that P2SH was adopted in 2012.

For further reading on the history of P2SH, also see "The Battle for P2SH: The Untold History of Bitcoin’s First War"

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Sjors New Book: https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Technical-innovations-Sjors-Provoost/dp/9090360425

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