From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com>
To: Amir Taaki <zgenjix@yahoo•com>
Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net"
<bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 32 HD wallets, accounts should be labels not numbers
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 14:54:12 +0100 [thread overview]
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On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Amir Taaki <zgenjix@yahoo•com> wrote:
> Can this be amended? I think it makes much more sense to allow people to
> input labels not numbers at this level.
>
> General category names for different accounts is much more human than
> numbers, and you can still use incrementing numbers if you prefer.
>
There is no way to iterate over all strings. The intention is that a wallet
application can detect a new account that becomes in use (e.g. during
disaster recovery), so the accounts get assigned incrementing numbers.
I wouldn't mind adding the ability to do "non-standard derivations" using
arbitrary strings, if this recoverability property is not desired.
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Pieter
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-03 13:49 Amir Taaki
2012-12-03 13:54 ` Pieter Wuille [this message]
2012-12-03 14:48 ` Amir Taaki
2012-12-03 20:44 ` Pieter Wuille
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