Multisig Coordination Software Nunchuk Releases Its Code
Recently-launched Bitcoin wallet Nunchuk announced today that it is making its application library, libnunchuk, open source and available to the public. Nunchuk describes its mission as “the proliferation of multisig” and attempts to make multisig wallet security easier to achieve by offering a product that integrates some of the latest developments around partially-signed bitcoin transactions (PSBTs) and descriptor language. “In the early days of Bitcoin, wallet vendors were often incompatible with one another, which complicated multisig setups,” according to an article from Nunchuk’s....
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