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Almost # All. Sure, 99% of transactions work that way but it is not a requirement.


That's not the point here, though: Most transactions do indeed use an ECDSA signature; the question is whether the signature format used by these transactions explicitly includes the public key as well, or whether it's implied and recovered from message and signature, as is possible with ECDSA.




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