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From: Pavol Rusnak <stick@satoshilabs•com>
To: Kabuto Samourai <kabuto@samouraiwallet•com>
Cc: 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 18:37:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7bf726e1-f4e2-8d68-f934-671a0f2b9033@satoshilabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+_kfXL7bkV+PqR7GdQ9GdDz9AnEBoRXFCgYyJdMJQ8zuCKOEA@mail.gmail.com>

On 07/09/17 18:30, Kabuto Samourai wrote:
> Why not make this block height, rather than a timestamp?

Blockheight depends on the chain. XPUB is not tied to particular
chain/coin.

Also there are already cryptocurrencies that do not use blockchain, but
directed acyclic graph (DAG) for storing transactions. So it would not
be obvious what number to use as a blockheight.

OTOH all blockchains contain timestamps in their blocks, so we can use that.

-- 
Best Regards / S pozdravom,

Pavol "stick" Rusnak
CTO, SatoshiLabs


  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-07 16:37 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
2017-09-07 16:30     ` Kabuto Samourai
2017-09-07 16:37       ` Pavol Rusnak [this message]
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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