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Bare Multisig Standardness

protocol.bare-multisig-standardness

Bare multisig outputs are consensus-valid, but default relay policy treats larger bare multisig cases as non-standard and prefers script-hash-based multisig in practice. This distinction matters when reasoning about what the network will relay versus what Script can theoretically validate.

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Curated resources (3)

• Bitcoin Developer Guide: Transactions (article) Canonical explanation of multisig scripts plus the standardness rule that makes larger bare multisig outputs non-standard for default relay.
• P2MS - Pay To Multisig (article) Decoding lesson that explicitly contrasts bare multisig with P2SH multisig and calls out the small-participant standardness limit.
• Mastering Bitcoin (book) Broad technical reference for script templates, redeem-script indirection, and policy-versus-validity tradeoffs in older transaction patterns.

Direct prerequisites (2)

• Pay-to-Multisig (P2MS)
• Standardness Policy

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