Withdrawing BIP 17, and proposing BIP 18; please review patch

[kjj]

No, it doesn't help any.

If you want to try to find a hash collision so that you can steal coins, you are better off making the simplest possible transaction, which is just one single key.  Once you've done that, it is just a matter of finding keys to match all 1,461,501,637,330,902,918,203,684,832,716,283,019,655,932,542,976 possible hashes.

[Maged]

It does mean that you don't need to waste time generating new keys and can just do a hash operation. Hash operations are much cheaper then ECC operations. That being said, the difference isn't all that much to matter here.

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