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authorAnton A <contact@antonphp.com>2023-04-04 09:56:11 +0930
committernaiyoma <lankas.aurelia@gmail.com>2024-03-15 16:28:43 +0300
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doc: Add example of mixing private and public keys in descriptors
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@@ -243,7 +243,18 @@ Often it is useful to communicate a description of scripts along with the
necessary private keys. For this reason, anywhere a public key or xpub is
supported, a private key in WIF format or xprv may be provided instead.
This is useful when private keys are necessary for hardened derivation
-steps, or for dumping wallet descriptors including private key material.
+steps, for signing transactions, or for dumping wallet descriptors
+including private key material.
+
+For example, after importing the following 2-of-3 multisig descriptor
+into a wallet, one could use `signrawtransactionwithwallet`
+to sign a transaction with the first key:
+```
+sh(multi(2,xprv.../84'/0'/0'/0/0,xpub1...,xpub2...))
+```
+Note how the first key is an xprv private key with a specific derivation path,
+while the other two are public keys.
+
### Compatibility with old wallets