Timeline for Why does the default miner implementation use pay-to-pubkey?
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| Oct 24, 2016 at 19:58 | history | edited | Murch♦ |
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| Nov 21, 2014 at 0:38 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackBitcoin/status/535593059321643009 | ||
| Nov 20, 2014 at 18:34 | comment | added | Nick ODell | Nevermind - The first Bitcoin transaction was P2PK. I'm wrong. | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 18:22 | vote | accept | morsecoder | ||
| Nov 20, 2014 at 18:07 | comment | added | David A. Harding | @NickODell recall that originally Bitcoin used IP transactions, not addresses. I'd have to check to be absolutely sure, but I don't think Bitcoin 0.1 included P2PKH. | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 18:04 | answer | added | David A. Harding | timeline score: 16 | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 18:03 | comment | added | morsecoder | I'm not saying it couldn't have been done, just that no one used P2PKH until later. | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 18:01 | comment | added | Nick ODell | It's not possible to construct a P2PK from just a bitcoin address - therefore P2PKH must have existed at the beginning. | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 18:00 | comment | added | morsecoder | I think P2PK was all that was used at the beginning, so I see why it started off that way, I'm just wondering why it was never changed... | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 17:40 | comment | added | Nick ODell | Reading the code, I agree with your assessment. Probably doesn't need to stay that way for compatibility, but I've got no clue why they did it that way. | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 17:07 | history | edited | morsecoder | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 20, 2014 at 16:37 | history | asked | morsecoder | CC BY-SA 3.0 |