By Isaac • September 30, 2026 11:12 pm •
A Bitcoin wallet can produce a signature that looks perfectly valid to the network while still behaving in a way its owner never approved. A new draft proposal, BIP-461, is trying to make one version of that problem easier to detect.
The proposal standardizes how Bitcoin wallets create ECDSA signatures. If two compliant signers receive the same private key and the same message, they should produce the same signature.
That gives users and developers a reference point. If the outputs differ, at least one signer is not following the standard.
CryptoSlate reports that the proposal was merged into the Bitcoin BIPs repository on September 16 and remains in draft form. It does not require a Bitcoin
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