# Gavin Andresen
# 2012-04-03 00:39:39
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=70074.msg832551#msg832551

Multisignature adoption has to follow a multi-step process: @p{par}

1. A majority of miners have to put multisignature transactions into blocks so they get confirmed. @p{par}

2. A significant fraction of everybody else has to relay multisignature transactions so they reliably get to the miners (preferably more than 50%). @p{par}

3. Depending on what you're using multisig FOR (escrow? secure wallets?), more technical infrastructure will need to be built. @p{par}

4. After all of the above is done... y'all will be able to reliably use multisignature transactions. @p{par}

April 1'st was the first step and we're doing pretty well with the second step, version 0.6 has a lot of support on the network already.  In fact, it is going so well I think we should turn on the 'addmultisigaddress' JSON-RPC method so people can start creating and experimenting with multisig with the 0.6.1 release. @p{par}