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Pay to Anchor

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Pay to Anchor is a keyless witness output pattern that leaves a compact fee-bumping hook in a transaction so a later child can improve confirmation without requiring privileged key material.

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Curated resources (3)

• BIP 433: Pay to Anchor (article) Draft specification for the keyless P2A output and its standard relay behavior.
• Bitcoin Optech: Pay to Anchor (article) Optech groups P2A with ephemeral anchors and documents the fee-bumping context.
• Mastering Bitcoin (book) Background on Bitcoin outputs, transaction fees, and child-pays-for-parent fee bumping.

Direct prerequisites (1)

• Ephemeral Anchors

Direct dependents (0)

• None

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