From: Matt Whitlock <bip@mattwhitlock•name>
To: Tamas Blummer <tamas@bitsofproof•com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Presenting a BIP for Shamir's Secret Sharing of Bitcoin private keys
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 04:47:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10282678.x5thQUt8hv@crushinator> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7A10A6C6-BE84-472B-9205-F5F9E459B5D7@bitsofproof.com>
On Tuesday, 22 April 2014, at 10:43 am, Tamas Blummer wrote:
> It is not about taste, but the fact that BIPs are used by many chains.
> Alts are useful for at least for experiments, and I think that the notion of main and testnet is superseeded by a wide choice of chains.
There aren't enough distinct bytes to allow for every altcoin. I believe what they do is their own business and is outside the scope of a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal.
If your argument were valid, then we would also have to apply it to private keys. Why do we bother specifying a separate encoding for Bitcoin testnet private keys? There are so many altcoins, after all.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-22 8:54 UTC|newest]
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2014-04-03 12:41 Nikita Schmidt
2014-04-03 21:42 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-04-04 13:51 ` Nikita Schmidt
2014-04-04 14:14 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-04 16:05 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-04-04 16:25 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-04 16:36 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-04-04 17:08 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-04 17:16 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-04-04 17:51 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-04 18:53 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-04-04 16:03 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-04-08 0:33 ` Nikita Schmidt
2014-04-08 0:38 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-08 1:46 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-04-08 2:07 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-08 11:52 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-04-10 22:31 ` Nikita Schmidt
2014-04-22 8:06 ` Jan Møller
2014-04-22 8:11 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-04-22 8:27 ` Jan Møller
2014-04-22 8:29 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-04-22 8:39 ` Jan Møller
2014-04-22 8:43 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-04-22 8:51 ` Jan Møller
2014-04-22 9:13 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-04-22 11:50 ` Justin A
2014-04-22 8:35 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-04-22 8:39 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-22 8:40 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-04-22 8:43 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-22 8:47 ` Matt Whitlock [this message]
2014-04-22 8:50 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-22 15:32 ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-22 15:49 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-22 17:03 ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-22 17:07 ` Jan Møller
2014-04-22 18:29 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-22 18:46 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-23 5:33 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-23 6:16 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-05-05 19:36 ` Nikita Schmidt
2014-05-12 12:09 ` Jan Møller
2014-08-14 19:23 ` Nikita Schmidt
2014-04-22 13:37 ` Nikita Schmidt
2014-04-22 8:15 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-22 8:49 ` Jan Møller
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2014-03-29 15:44 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-03-29 16:59 ` Alan Reiner
2014-03-29 17:19 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-03-29 17:52 ` Alan Reiner
2014-03-29 18:00 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-03-29 18:08 ` Alan Reiner
2014-03-29 18:10 ` Matt Whitlock
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2014-03-29 19:34 ` Natanael
2014-04-04 2:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-03-29 18:16 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-03-29 18:41 ` Alan Reiner
2014-03-29 17:28 ` Roy Badami
2014-03-29 17:42 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-03-29 17:51 ` Roy Badami
2014-03-29 17:28 ` devrandom
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2014-03-29 17:38 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-03-29 17:46 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-03-29 19:49 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-03-29 17:48 ` devrandom
2014-03-29 17:51 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-03-29 17:56 ` devrandom
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-03-29 8:05 Matt Whitlock
2014-03-29 8:34 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-03-29 8:44 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-03-29 8:51 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-03-29 8:54 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-03-29 16:54 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-03-29 17:37 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-03-29 9:08 ` Chris Beams
2014-03-29 9:31 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-03-29 11:16 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-03-29 11:54 ` Chris Beams
2014-03-29 13:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-03-29 13:36 ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-29 13:38 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-03-29 14:10 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-03-29 14:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-03-29 14:55 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-03-29 15:04 ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-29 14:28 ` Watson Ladd
2014-03-29 14:36 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-03-29 15:01 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-03-29 9:21 ` Chris Beams
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