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There is pubkeys but they're embedded in a script which is defined by the address format. There's almost no outputs that don't contain a pubkey since scripts t
by treyd 2y ago
There is pubkeys but they're embedded in a script which is defined by the address format. There's almost no outputs that don't contain a pubkey since scripts that don't commit to a spend with a signature could just be spent by anyone paying attention and consumed.
- csomar 2y ago> by the address format This is not a requirement. You can have outputs that have no "address". They are just hanging there. The risk for non-pubkey signed messages is that once you broadcast your script, anyone else can consume your outputs.
- treyd 2y agoRight but this is very much a special case that doesn't satisfy the tx standardness rules so it'd require more effort to include in a block.