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From: Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach•de>
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Export format for xpub
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 13:38:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <manr4t$c1a$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP3Tuw3mJLSuoOA4iOmg6u9sdh-E5NNm_FgdYs3Mx39znA@mail.gmail.com>

On 02/02/2015 12:33 PM, Mike Hearn wrote:

> I looked at what Andreas is doing a few days ago - basically it's just
> an xpub string with a ?a=b&c=d query string added to the end, with a
> hierarchy type specifier and something else I forgot, encoded into a QR
> code.

It's h=bip32 for the hierarchy used and
c=123456 for the creation date of the wallet (in seconds since epoch).

I pondered about if we should add a scheme (e.g. "bitcoin-xpub:") but
decided to start without. The only advantage I currently see would be it
could be used on Android to dispatch intents to the right app(s).





  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-02 12:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-02  8:56 Levin Keller
2015-02-02 11:33 ` Mike Hearn
2015-02-02 12:38   ` Andreas Schildbach [this message]
2015-02-02 12:59     ` Pavol Rusnak
2015-02-02 14:17       ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-02-02 14:47         ` vv01f
2015-02-03  0:02           ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-02-02 14:56         ` Pavol Rusnak
2015-02-03  0:05           ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-02-03  0:22             ` Pavol Rusnak
2015-02-03  9:33               ` Levin Keller
2015-02-03 10:10                 ` Pavol Rusnak
2015-02-03 10:37                   ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-02-03 10:44                     ` Pavol Rusnak
2015-02-03 10:35                 ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-02-03 10:34               ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-02-02 12:57   ` Pavol Rusnak
2015-02-02 11:38 ` Wladimir

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