[Bitcoin-development] Quote on BIP 16

[Luke-Jr]

On Sunday, January 29, 2012 12:10:41 AM Amir Taaki wrote:
> 2 compressed pubkeys

2 compressed pubkeys are 33 bytes each. Add 1 bytes for the N (n-of-m), 1 byte 
for the address version, and finally the 4 byte checksum, you get a total of 
72 bytes. But these are *bytes* - to get an address, you also need to base58 
encode it: this yields a 99 character address.