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Pay-to-Witness-Script-Hash (P2WSH)

protocol.p2wsh

SegWit version-0 output that commits to the SHA256 hash of a witness script and reveals that script plus its witness stack when spent. P2WSH supports complex policies such as multisig with lower weight and no legacy scriptSig malleability.

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Curated resources (3)

• BIP 141: Pay-to-Witness-Script-Hash (article) Canonical definition of the v0 witness script hash program and witness validation.
• Bitcoin Wiki: Address (article) Address-level explanation of native SegWit P2WSH outputs.
• Mastering Bitcoin (book) Explains witness scripts, native SegWit multisig, and P2WSH spending structure.

Direct prerequisites (2)

• Pay-to-Script-Hash (P2SH)
• Segregated Witness (SegWit)

Direct dependents (0)

• None

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