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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: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 01:05:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <map3bi$pkf$2@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54CF9016.5070206@gk2.sk>

On 02/02/2015 03:56 PM, Pavol Rusnak wrote:

> To me it seems more important to describe how addresses should be
> discovered (i.e. to scan xpub/0/i and xpub/1/j chains using gap limit G)
> instead of how the xpub was created/obtained (bip32 vs bip44).
> 
> What do you thing about changing ?h=bip32 to something like
> 
> ?t=01&g=20
> 
> - t=01 meaning that chains 0 and 1 should be scanned (feel free to
> change "01" into any other descriptive string)
> - g=20 meaning that gap 20 should be used

I don't think that parameterizing will work, we can't predict future
BIPs. It's the same as for BIP43, in the end we agreed on just putting
the BIP number.





  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-03  0:10 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
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 [this message]
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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