==== BIP 0016 - Pay to Script Hash (soft fork) ====
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<caption>Data sheet for Pay to Script Hash  </caption>
| Title                      | Pay to Script Hash  |
| Layer                      | Consensus (soft fork) |
| Author                     | Gavin Andresen	 |
| Comments-Summary           | No comments yet. |
| Comments-URI               | [[https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/wiki/Comments:BIP-0016]]    |
| Status                     | Final | 
| Type                       | Standards Track | 
| Created                    | 2012-01-03  |
| Post History               |  |
| Description                | [[https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0016.mediawiki]] |
</table>

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=== Abstract ===
  : //This BIP describes a new "standard" transaction type for the Bitcoin scripting system, and defines additional [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:v:validation|validation]] rules that apply only to the new transactions.//

=== Motivation ===
  : //The purpose of pay-to-script-hash is to move the responsibility for supplying the conditions to redeem a transaction from the sender of the funds to the redeemer.//

  : //The benefit is allowing a sender to fund any arbitrary transaction, no matter how complicated, using a fixed-length 20-byte hash that is short enough to scan from a QR code or easily copied and pasted.//