Hey rainman thanks for this explanation. Ill grab xeroc to bring further into this discussion. I hope this is the reason...cause when same input somehow = different output every time...it concerns me. Looks like i need to do some reading. Please stay in this discussion as u are already proving to be highly valuable.
This is at the core of the reasons why faddat and baabeetaa could not build the beyondbitcoin.io site ...and also stopped them from making it easy to crosspost to steem from their social "media hub" blockchain.
RE: Why does steem use this canonical thing instead of strict secp256k1?