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docs(bip-0046): add Backwards Compatibility section

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It would be useful to be able to keep the private keys of fidelity bonds in cold storage. This would allow the sybil resistance of a system to increase without hot wallet risk.
== Backwards Compatibility ==
This BIP is not backwards compatible by design as described in the Considerations section of [[bip-0049.mediawiki|BIP 49]]. An incompatible wallet will not discover fidelity bonds at all and the user will notice that something is wrong.
== Background ==
=== Fidelity bonds ===