Ciphrex was using this convention well before BitPay...and BitPay's BIP32 implementation was at least partly taken from ours.

- Eric

On Jan 14, 2015 8:03 PM, "Andy Alness" <andy@coinbase.com> wrote:
Doing same (BitPay convention) for our multisig support.

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Eric Lombrozo <elombrozo@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would highly recommend NOT using Base58 for anything except stuff that is
> to be copy/pasted by the enduser.
>
> Internally, pubkeys are DER-encoded integers.
>
> - Eric
>
> On Jan 14, 2015 2:54 PM, "Jeffrey Paul" <jp@eeqj.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > On 20150114, at 09:39, devrandom <c1.sf-bitcoin@niftybox.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > At CryptoCorp we recommend to our customers that they sort
>> > lexicographically by the public key bytes of the leaf public keys.  i.e.
>> > the same as BitPay.
>>
>> To clarify: the raw bytes of the public key itself, not the ascii base58
>> representation of the pubkey hash - right?
>>
>> -jp
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