Repeating Core lies is a clown move.
Are fake pubkeys fixed? No. It is just another exploit for spammers and scammers.
For Citrea, they needed visibility of unconfirmed state across the network before it is in a block.
Core made the change for Citrea explicitly.
BitcoinIsFuture
npub1wl…5caw8
2026-06-05 13:22:12 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…82t2
Author Public Key
npub1wl6kysagynfz2ulmw4wa2trnc9ycd52upjv9zt297n0tpr5ls7dqk5caw8Published at
2026-06-05 13:22:12 UTCEvent JSON
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