Morning, Yes, in general, Bitcoin does not do anything to prevent users from discarding their keys.
I don't think this will be fixed anytime soon. There are some protocols where, though, knowing that a key was once known to the recipients may make it legally valid to inflict a punitive measure (e.g., via HTLC), whereas if the key was never known that might be a breach of contract for the payment provider. Best, Jeremy On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 7:52 PM ZmnSCPxj <zmnsc...@protonmail.com> wrote: > Good morning Jeremy, > > >If a sender needs to know the recipient can remove the covenant before > spending, they may request a signature of an challenge string from the > recipients > > The recipients can always choose to destroy the privkey after providing > the above signature. > Indeed, the recipients can always insist on not cooperating to sign using > the taproot branch and thus force spending via the > `OP_CHECKOUTPUTSHASHVERIFY`. > > Regards, > ZmnSCPxj >
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