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How is authority determined?

The leaf nodes are constructed so that they can only be extended by digitally signing them. Anyone with the right signing key may extend a leaf, ``spending'' the money. When you send money to someone, you create a new leaf node which can only be spent by signing with one of their keys.



Andrew Poelstra 2014-06-05