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From: Kabuto Samourai <kabuto@samouraiwallet•com>
To: Pavol Rusnak <stick@satoshilabs•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 11:30:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+_kfXL7bkV+PqR7GdQ9GdDz9AnEBoRXFCgYyJdMJQ8zuCKOEA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200b706a-f6ac-479a-2dce-fd66fe943949@satoshilabs.com>

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> Birthday

Why not make this block height, rather than a timestamp?

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Pavol Rusnak <stick@satoshilabs•com> wrote:

> 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
>



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-Kabuto

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-07 16:30 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 [this message]
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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