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Multisig is implemented using smart contracts on Bitcoin as well. That's what P2SH is. Or you could use secret sharing for BTC or Eth, but people tend not to.

• theptip 9y ago
  Perhaps you _can_ do it that way, but you can also just use m-of-n cryptography (e.g. Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme) to split your private key. See http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/multisig.html http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/multisig.html for an example, and https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Multisignature https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Multisignature for more background (including links to SSSS). You don't need a smart contract to achieve this. I suppose it's more convenient since your co-signers can just submit their M signatures onto the blockchain, instead of having to collaborate offline to generate a valid signed block. But putting the multisig logic into a smart contract is quite obviously not fail-safe, as these vulnerabilities show.