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| author | Sjors Provoost <sjors@sprovoost.nl> | 2022-01-12 16:37:01 +0100 |
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| committer | Sjors Provoost <sjors@sprovoost.nl> | 2022-01-12 16:39:21 +0100 |
| commit | 6366f8ebcbab1bc5e59325bf8a00ed96065bd671 (patch) | |
| tree | 9f1af9229ee60d8d1a911cbb3a2de8fc92ac12e6 /bip-0174.mediawiki | |
| parent | dc034af961132a3593fb2d4f81ddb06c67c2b6d2 (diff) | |
| download | bips-6366f8ebcbab1bc5e59325bf8a00ed96065bd671.tar.xz | |
bip174: document PSBT 0 handling of type > 0xFD
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diff --git a/bip-0174.mediawiki b/bip-0174.mediawiki index 8ef525c..874af14 100644 --- a/bip-0174.mediawiki +++ b/bip-0174.mediawiki @@ -819,6 +819,9 @@ If an updater is updating a PSBT and needs to add a field that is only available New fields should first be proposed on the bitcoin-dev mailing list. If a field requires significant description as to its usage, it should be accompanied by a separate BIP. The field must be added to the field listing tables in the Specification section. +Although some PSBT version 0 implementations encode types as uint8_t rather than compact size, +it is still safe to add >0xFD fields to PSBT 0, because these old parsers ignore +unknown fields, and <keytype> is prefixed by its length. ===Procedure For New Versions=== |