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Re: About possibility to Sign messages in Segwit address in future
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RGBKey
on 05/02/2018, 16:38:39 UTC
Known issue.  There are some subtle problems here.  I’ve wanted to kick around ideas for a potential BIP, but it’s been fairly low on my list.


My doubt, regarding signing in segwit address is if this is a "bug" and will soon be corrected, or is it an abandoned feature?

If the later is the case, i will probably move back to legacy addresses... I fear to lose airdrops, which may be quite significant.

I think there will eventually be a standard way to sign and verify messages with segwit addresses. But currently, almost nobody will be able to (easily) verify a segwit address signed message.

My doubt, regarding signing in segwit address is if this is a "bug" and will soon be corrected, or is it an abandoned feature?
It is neither a bug nor an abandoned feature. It is just that we are still working on creating a more generalized signing scheme that lets people sign with things like P2SH addresses (e.g. sign with a multisig address).

A signing standard that allows signed messages from multisig addresses would be incredible, I hope progress is made on this eventually.