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@@ -293,6 +293,24 @@ if this is 1.
 - `-datacarriersize=n` : Maximum size, in bytes, we consider acceptable for
 "data carrier" outputs.
 
+BIP 66: strict DER encoding for signatures
+------------------------------------------
+
+Bitcoin Core 0.10 implements BIP 66, which introduces block version 3, and a new
+consensus rule, which prohibits non-DER signatures. Such transactions have been
+non-standard since Bitcoin v0.8.0 (released in February 2013), but were
+technically still permitted inside blocks.
+
+This change breaks the dependency on OpenSSL's signature parsing, and is
+required if implementations would want to remove all of OpenSSL from the
+consensus code.
+
+The same miner-voting mechanism as in BIP 34 is used: when 751 out of a
+sequence of 1001 blocks have version number 3 or higher, the new consensus
+rule becomes active for those blocks. When 951 out of a sequence of 1001
+blocks have version number 3 or higher, it becomes mandatory for all blocks.
+
+
 0.10.0 Change log
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