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Schnorr Signatures (BIP-340)
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Schnorr Signatures (BIP-340)

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Schnorr vs ECDSA

ECDSA was patented (until 2008) so the world standardized on it. Schnorr — invented earlier, simpler, with better properties — was the obvious right answer all along.

Bitcoin activated BIP-340 Schnorr at the Taproot soft-fork (Nov 2021).

The signature

Same curve (secp2

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