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From: Thomas Voegtlin <thomasv@electrum•org>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP proposal for Lightning-oriented multiaccount multisig HD wallets
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 12:07:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cb022f27-93ce-b61d-097b-8ccc2ef3e288@electrum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8088fa79-8e77-8663-afb4-800a405a6182@chainside.net>



On 29.08.2017 12:19, Simone Bronzini via bitcoin-dev wrote:

> 2. SegWit addresses:
> since mixing SegWit and non-SegWit addresses on the same BIP44 structure
> could lead to UTXOs not being completely recognised by old wallets,
> BIP49 was proposed to separate the key space. 

This will lead to old UTXOs not being recognized by NEW wallets, because
at some point new wallets will not care about implementing old standards.

The only way to address this is to get out of bip39 and bip43, and to
include a version number in the mnemonic seed.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-30 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-29 10:19 Simone Bronzini
2017-08-29 20:07 ` Luke Dashjr
2017-08-30 12:22   ` Simone Bronzini
2017-08-30 10:07 ` Thomas Voegtlin [this message]
2017-08-30 12:48   ` Simone Bronzini

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