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From: Dmitry Petukhov <dp@simplexum•com>
To: Billy Tetrud <billy.tetrud@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP Proposal: Receiving and Change Derivation Paths in a Single Descriptor
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 09:09:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220804090933.228ad190@simplexum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGpPWDaSsAn3GPoYdJmdJ6iW6M6G_2G8ua1cONhjSRRdSog8Pg@mail.gmail.com>

В Wed, 3 Aug 2022 20:16:52 -0500
Billy Tetrud <billy.tetrud@gmail•com> wrote:

> A descriptor format is simply defining a space of address
> derivation paths. It is not describing in any way what each path is
> intended for - those are conventions outside the scope of this BIP
> IMO. Defining the conventions of derivation path indexes should be a
> separate BIP. Single responsibility principle.

I see, you're right. I misread the BIP proposal text and missed that it
describes 'receive' and 'change' only as 'common usecase', not as
definitive designations for indexes. Considering this, I too see no need
to include such conventions in this BIP.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-04  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-27 14:58 Andrew Chow
2022-07-28  9:40 ` Dmitry Petukhov
2022-08-04  1:16   ` Billy Tetrud
2022-08-04  7:09     ` Dmitry Petukhov [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-07-26 22:27 Andrew Chow
2022-07-27  8:44 ` Pavol Rusnak
2022-07-26 21:41 Andrew Chow
2022-07-26 21:56 ` Pavol Rusnak
2022-07-27  7:57 ` Craig Raw

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