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Mention that BIP350 reduces scope of bech32 to v0
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Created: 2017-03-20
License: BSD-2-Clause
Replaces: 142
Superseded-By: 350
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==Introduction==
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This document is inspired by the [https://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=578 address proposal] by Rusty Russell, the
[https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2014-February/004402.html base32] proposal by Mark Friedenbach, and had input from Luke Dashjr,
Johnson Lau, Eric Lombrozo, Peter Todd, and various other reviewers.

==Disclosures (added 2024)==

Due to an oversight in the design of bech32, this checksum scheme is not always
robust against
[[https://gist.github.com/sipa/a9845b37c1b298a7301c33a04090b2eb|the insertion
and deletion of fewer than 5 consecutive characters]]. Due to this weakness,
[[bip-0350.mediawiki|BIP-350]] proposes using the scheme described in this BIP
only for Native Segwit v0 outputs.

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