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Elaborate on the encoding of witness versions
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sipa committed Aug 4, 2017
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As a result of the previous rules, addresses are always between 14 and 74 characters long, and their length modulo 8 cannot be 0, 3, or 5.
Version 0 witness addresses are always 42 or 62 characters, but implementations MUST allow the use of any version.

Implementations should take special care when converting the address to a
scriptPubkey, where witness version ''n'' is stored as ''OP_n''. OP_0 is
encoded as 0x00, but OP_1 through OP_16 are encoded as 0x51 though 0x60
(81 to 96 in decimal). If a bech32 address is converted to an incorrect
scriptPubKey the result will likely be either unspendable or insecure.

===Compatibility===

Only new software will be able to use these addresses, and only for
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