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Old CH07: delete section about bech32 addresses

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We covered this in depth in the addresses chapter.
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@ -92,64 +92,6 @@ To achieve this, Bitcoin Core sets the +nLocktime+ on all new
transactions to <current block # + 1> and sets the +nSequence+ on all
the inputs to 0xFFFFFFFE to enable +nLocktime+.((("",
startref="Stimelock07")))
===== Segregated Witness addresses
Even after segwit activation, it will take some time until most wallets
are upgraded. At first, segwit will be embedded in P2SH, as we saw in
the previous section, to ease compatibility between segit-aware and
unaware wallets.
However, once wallets are broadly supporting segwit, it makes sense to
encode witness scripts directly in a native address format designed for
segwit, rather than embed it in P2SH.
The native segwit address format is defined in BIP-173:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0173.mediawiki[BIP-173]::
Base32 address format for native v0-16 witness outputs
BIP-173 only encodes witness (P2WPKH and P2WSH) scripts. It is not
compatible with non-segwit P2PKH or P2SH scripts. BIP-173 is a
checksummed Base32 encoding, as compared to the Base58 encoding of a
"traditional" Bitcoin address. BIP-173 addesses are also called _bech32_
addresses, pronounced "beh-ch thirty two", alluding to the use of a
"BCH" error detection algorithm and 32-character encoding set.
BIP-173 addresses use 32 lower-case-only alphanumeric character set,
carefully selected to reduce errors from misreading or mistyping. By
choosing a lower-case-only character set, bech32 is easier to read,
speak, and 45% more efficient to encode in QR codes.
The BCH error detection algorithm is a vast improvement over the
previous checksum algorithm (from Base58Check), allowing not only
detection but also _correction_ of errors. Address-input interfaces
(such as text-fields in forms) can detect and highlight which character
was most likely mistyped when they detect an error.
From the BIP-173 specification, here are some examples of bech32 addresses:
Mainnet P2WPKH:: bc1qw508d6qejxtdg4y5r3zarvary0c5xw7kv8f3t4
Testnet P2WPKH:: tb1qw508d6qejxtdg4y5r3zarvary0c5xw7kxpjzsx
Mainnet P2WSH:: bc1qrp33g0q5c5txsp9arysrx4k6zdkfs4nce4xj0gdcccefvpysxf3qccfmv3
Testnet P2WSH:: tb1qrp33g0q5c5txsp9arysrx4k6zdkfs4nce4xj0gdcccefvpysxf3q0sl5k7
As you can see in these examples, a segwit bech32 string is up to 90
characters long and consists of three parts:
The human readable part:: This prefix "bc" or "tb" identifying mainnet
or testnet.
The separator:: The digit "1", which is not part of the 32-character
encoding set and can only appear in this position as a separator
The data part:: A minimum of 6 alphanumeric characters, the checksum
encoded witness script
At this time, only a few wallets accept or produce native segwit bech32
addresses, but as segwit adoption increases, you will see these more and
more often.
==== Segregated Witness' New Signing Algorithm
Segregated Witness modifies the semantics of the four signature