From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.192] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-2.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WcWT0-0004N3-MS for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 08:54:14 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from [76.96.59.211] (helo=QMTA11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net) by sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) id 1WcWSt-0007g8-Gb for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 08:54:14 +0000 Received: from omta12.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.44]) by QMTA11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id swkT1n0020xGWP85BwnSr7; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 08:47:26 +0000 Received: from crushinator.localnet ([IPv6:2601:6:4800:47f:219:d1ff:fe75:dc2f]) by omta12.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id swnS1n00A4VnV2P3YwnSy3; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 08:47:26 +0000 From: Matt Whitlock To: Tamas Blummer Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 04:47:26 -0400 Message-ID: <10282678.x5thQUt8hv@crushinator> User-Agent: KMail/4.13 (Linux/3.12.13-gentoo; KDE/4.13.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <7A10A6C6-BE84-472B-9205-F5F9E459B5D7@bitsofproof.com> References: <4586234.JVHRmdZYKl@crushinator> <7A10A6C6-BE84-472B-9205-F5F9E459B5D7@bitsofproof.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Spam-Score: 1.0 (+) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, no trust [76.96.59.211 listed in list.dnswl.org] 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature 1.0 RDNS_NONE Delivered to internal network by a host with no rDNS X-Headers-End: 1WcWSt-0007g8-Gb Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Presenting a BIP for Shamir's Secret Sharing of Bitcoin private keys X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 08:54:14 -0000 On Tuesday, 22 April 2014, at 10:43 am, Tamas Blummer wrote: > It is not about taste, but the fact that BIPs are used by many chains. > Alts are useful for at least for experiments, and I think that the notion of main and testnet is superseeded by a wide choice of chains. There aren't enough distinct bytes to allow for every altcoin. I believe what they do is their own business and is outside the scope of a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal. If your argument were valid, then we would also have to apply it to private keys. Why do we bother specifying a separate encoding for Bitcoin testnet private keys? There are so many altcoins, after all.