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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Post your SegWit questions here - open discussion - big week for Bitcoin!
by
TransaDox
on 20/12/2016, 15:31:12 UTC
I keep seeing the main justification for SegWit being that it solved the sighash problem, where it ends with a hand-wave of "The signature script contains the secp256k1 signature, which can’t sign itself"

Can someone explain to me why it can't sign itself? (preferably with an example)