# Gavin Andresen
# 2011-04-24 23:20:09
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6430.msg94290#msg94290

What's the extra CPU cost for recovering the public key?  Current bottleneck for bitcoin transaction processing is the CPU cost of ECDSA signature verification, not disk space or bandwidth, so saving bytes at the expense of more CPU is not the right thing to do. @p{brk}