From: Btc Drak <btcdrak@gmail•com>
To: Danny Thorpe <danny.thorpe@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] RFC - BIP: URI scheme for Blockchain exploration
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 23:59:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADJgMzuK6YpLyFQ1BnHuWi4GyoqOgnuaA7T3odukpB=Hh3pTgQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJN5wHVdneuRv6Vpf4q3d=mqwu2HkNeJwFhoqPHFiQcatt4RSg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Danny Thorpe via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Rather than using an inhumanly long hex string from the genesis hash to
> distinguish between mainnet and testnet, why not use the network magic bytes
> instead? Much shorter, just as distinct.
There's nothing stopping two coins having the same magic bytes, but
communicating on separate ports.
> I'd still prefer a common network name mapping for the sake of humanity. Few
> bitcoin library implementations use the same string names for mainnet and
> testnet. This BIP could simply define one string name alias for each
> supported network and leave mapping to local lingo to the implementors.
The only sane way to me see to have cointype like BIP44.
See https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0044.mediawiki#coin-type
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-01 22:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-29 11:48 Marco Pontello
2015-08-29 16:31 ` Richard Moore
2015-08-29 17:19 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-08-29 19:24 ` Richard Moore
2015-08-29 18:07 ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-09-01 14:33 ` Marco Pontello
2015-08-29 18:58 ` Btc Drak
2015-08-29 19:01 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-08-29 20:10 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-30 2:02 ` Chun Wang
2015-08-30 2:20 ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-01 22:56 ` Btc Drak
2015-09-01 14:49 ` Marco Pontello
2015-09-01 21:16 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-09-01 21:25 ` Esteban Ordano
2015-09-01 21:38 ` Marco Pontello
2015-09-01 21:42 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-09-01 21:43 ` Marco Pontello
2015-09-01 22:46 ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-01 23:25 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-09-01 16:12 ` Danny Thorpe
2015-09-01 22:59 ` Btc Drak [this message]
2015-09-01 23:57 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-29 19:28 ` Richard Moore
2015-09-01 14:51 ` Marco Pontello
2015-11-15 2:14 ` Marco Pontello
2015-11-15 11:42 ` Jorge Timón
2015-11-16 0:59 ` Marco Pontello
2015-11-16 14:43 ` Jorge Timón
2015-11-16 22:10 ` Marco Pontello
2015-11-18 11:29 ` Jorge Timón
2015-11-18 12:31 ` Marco Pontello
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