multisig

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adjective

Of a cryptocurrency wallet: requiring two or more signatures from different private keys in order to complete a transaction.

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Meanings

adjectivemultisig (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebusinessOf a cryptocurrency wallet: requiring two or more signatures from different private keys in order to complete a transaction.

    Security firm Check Point believes the attacker identified multisig signers responsible for approving transactions and hacked their devices through the use of malware, phishing, or a supply chain attack.

    2025 February 24, Eduard Kovacs, “$1.5 Billion Bybit Heist Linked to North Korean Hackers”, in SecurityWeek
nounmultisig (plural multisigs)

plural multisigs

  1. businessA multisig cryptocurrency wallet.

    Schroé describes Spiderchains as a decentralized network of multisigs, similar in concept to the Lightning Network but using a different architecture.

    2024 June 7, “Proof-Of-Stake On Bitcoin? Discussing Botanix's Spiderchains”, in Bitcoin Magazine, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2024

Origin

Clipping of multisignature. By surface analysis, multi- + sig (“signature”).

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Cite this entry
APA

multisig. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/multisig

MLA

“multisig.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/multisig. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “multisig,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/multisig.

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