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From: Pavol Rusnak <stick@satoshilabs•com>
To: Kabuto Samourai <kabuto@samouraiwallet•com>,
	Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Proposal: Extended serialization format for BIP-32 wallets
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 18:25:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200b706a-f6ac-479a-2dce-fd66fe943949@satoshilabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+_kfXLvTKwkuYmtt94OPUEPPwsEzhRoryy7srKMbLxYDxnmFA@mail.gmail.com>

On 07/09/17 05:52, Kabuto Samourai wrote:
> The birthday field is interesting. Could you provide some motivation for
> its inclusion?

Birthday is something SPV wallet developers have been wanting for years.
It helps them with the initial scan, so SPV wallet does not have to
download every block in the blockchain, but only the ones after birthday.

> Could you also add some test vectors?

I will add some test vectors, when we agree this is the way to go.

> There are a few minor grammar / spelling errors, but we can nitpick
> those after this goes to the pull request stage on bitcoin/bips.

+1

-- 
Best Regards / S pozdravom,

Pavol "stick" Rusnak
CTO, SatoshiLabs


  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-07 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-06 22:29 Pavol Rusnak
2017-09-07  3:52 ` Kabuto Samourai
2017-09-07 16:25   ` Pavol Rusnak [this message]
2017-09-07 16:30     ` Kabuto Samourai
2017-09-07 16:37       ` Pavol Rusnak
2017-09-07 18:02         ` Peter Todd
2017-09-07  4:29 ` Thomas Voegtlin
2017-09-07 16:23   ` Pavol Rusnak
2017-09-07 16:33     ` Kabuto Samourai
2017-09-07 19:35     ` Andreas Schildbach
2017-09-07 20:00       ` Pavol Rusnak
2017-09-07 20:39     ` Thomas Voegtlin
2017-09-07 16:47 ` Jonas Schnelli
2017-09-07 18:09   ` Peter Todd
2017-09-07 18:38   ` Pavol Rusnak

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