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schnorr signatures solved the signature malleability problem that instead that gave us segwit - and it was only a year or two later that schnorr's patent expired

segwit's signature malleability was the main problem that stopped LN

imo people are a bit in denial about segwit as it really did weaken the protocol more than it strengthened it
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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 2y ago

i never bothered to actually memorize the facts about schnorr signatures

it was registered in 1989/90 and expired in 2008

it could have been used in bitcoin but it had seen little real use in the field and there was few implementations

i just use these things... such details don't matter a lot beyond "is this correct implementation, ok good"

but schnorr would have made it possible to simplify and make bitcoin much more secure and less vulnerable to a plausible argument for changing the protocol, that point is correct

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