September 14, 2026

Which kinds of transactions show quadratic signature-hashing scaling?

It has been stated:

A major problem with simple approaches to increasing the Bitcoin blocksize is that for certain transactions, signature-hashing scales quadratically rather than linearly.

https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/01/26/segwit-benefits/#linear-scaling-of-sighash-operations

What are some examples of transactions with this behavior, and what do they have in common?

Does a simple one-input-two-output Alice-pays-Bob transaction show quadratic signature-hashing scaling?

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