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    June 02, 2013, 07:16:35 PM
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    So basically, you have two pieces of information (the tx and the private key of the target address), and spending your coins requires having both. So this is in no way better than putting the coins in a 2-of-2 multisig address. But there are several ways it's worse:

    - Less intuitive
    - The deposit procedure is more convoluted
    - Less flexible (there's no obvious way to extend to, say, 3-of-5 without involving multisig logic)
    - Additional attack vectors - e.g., attacker steals just the target private key, and beats you to the tx that moves coins from it when you cash out
    - Impossible to add more funds to the same wallet

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