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authorPieter Wuille <pieter@wuille.net>2021-01-05 13:36:42 -0800
committerPieter Wuille <pieter@wuille.net>2021-03-27 12:09:44 -0700
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downloadbitcoin-593e206627f4fb789de70f55017f71b85d10754d.tar.xz
Use Bech32m encoding for v1+ segwit addresses
This also includes updates to the Python test framework implementation, test vectors, and release notes. Github-Pull: #20861 Rebased-From: fe5e495c31de47b0ec732b943db11fe345d874af
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-BIPs that are implemented by Bitcoin Core (up-to-date up to **v0.21.0**):
+BIPs that are implemented by Bitcoin Core (up-to-date up to **v0.21.1**):
* [`BIP 9`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0009.mediawiki): The changes allowing multiple soft-forks to be deployed in parallel have been implemented since **v0.12.1** ([PR #7575](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7575))
* [`BIP 11`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0011.mediawiki): Multisig outputs are standard since **v0.6.0** ([PR #669](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/669)).
@@ -46,3 +46,4 @@ BIPs that are implemented by Bitcoin Core (up-to-date up to **v0.21.0**):
* [`BIP 325`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0325.mediawiki): Signet test network is supported as of **v0.21.0** ([PR 18267](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/18267)).
* [`BIP 339`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0339.mediawiki): Relay of transactions by wtxid is supported as of **v0.21.0** ([PR 18044](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/18044)).
* [`BIP 340`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0340.mediawiki) [`341`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0341.mediawiki) [`342`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0342.mediawiki): Validation rules for Taproot (including Schnorr signatures and Tapscript leaves) are implemented as of **v0.21.0** ([PR 19953](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/19953)), without mainnet activation.
+* [`BIP 350`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0350.mediawiki): Addresses for native v1+ segregated Witness outputs use Bech32m instead of Bech32 as of **v0.21.1** ([PR 20861](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/20861)).
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+Updated RPCs
+------------
+
+- Due to [BIP 350](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0350.mediawiki)
+ being implemented, behavior for all RPCs that accept addresses is changed when
+ a native witness version 1 (or higher) is passed. These now require a Bech32m
+ encoding instead of a Bech32 one, and Bech32m encoding will be used for such
+ addresses in RPC output as well. No version 1 addresses should be created
+ for mainnet until consensus rules are adopted that give them meaning
+ (e.g. through [BIP 341](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0341.mediawiki)).
+ Once that happens, Bech32m is expected to be used for them, so this shouldn't
+ affect any production systems, but may be observed on other networks where such
+ addresses already have meaning (like signet).