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doc: mention P2SH IsStandard relaxation in release notes

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Peter Todd 10 years ago committed by Wladimir J. van der Laan
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@ -195,6 +195,17 @@ correctly spends the passed scriptPubKey under additional constraints indicated
The functionality is planned to be extended to e.g. UTXO management in upcoming releases, but the interface The functionality is planned to be extended to e.g. UTXO management in upcoming releases, but the interface
for existing methods should remain stable. for existing methods should remain stable.
Standard script rules relaxed for P2SH addresses
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The IsStandard() rules have been almost completely removed for P2SH
redemption scripts, allowing applications to make use of any valid
script type, such as "n-of-m OR y", hash-locked oracle addresses, etc.
While the Bitcoin protocol has always supported these types of script,
actually using them on mainnet has been previously inconvenient as
standard Bitcoin Core nodes wouldn't relay them to miners, nor would
most miners include them in blocks they mined.
0.10.0 Release notes 0.10.0 Release notes
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