From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.193] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-1.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Wce79-00047K-EI for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 17:04:11 +0000 Received: from mail-pa0-f53.google.com ([209.85.220.53]) by sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1Wce76-00024E-6d for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 17:04:11 +0000 Received: by mail-pa0-f53.google.com with SMTP id ld10so5142708pab.40 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:04:02 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:organization:user-agent :mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=oicVStzmZ6nhK4sz7qJkENn0WPDCgf2YA/mLCt70/Kk=; b=VYGlFnJ7OV/U0f1Cmu2yf1mmXF6ljfC/BWcoayis6MdnkJUC1/3nPXk52U/SQCetvn bCqHPpTW56bDEHJzEvWW+L1Y1BU8M9S5aXh352N1TrWAtjgBW0irRHwGAP1R5XuS88da wnAghgdVzFvs6yX+HPAoUnkhzanHAI/4dxOTB7vzONVfuiu2rYqVGMwwYNQ6KD1pgcXq I6twbF7M9ZLHfDJFGy9lDPa8HWs1luwg+fU2X4chmA9DUCL4xcJaTGYT6p8EMEs2ZAE3 TQLfZqa6PbnrMQGYDcO2XulFBTlhLKhUpIzLG6kTCVnEFkslasV1AVM9RL0XzWWzgX7G iQ7A== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlCJju/JGbSZaDFE2RToc/8zAWdGCBuOzmLcLgkY1RUEVclkaU+ETB9prlnhbjnjrcYaEx6 X-Received: by 10.67.1.106 with SMTP id bf10mr45083761pad.78.1398186241986; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:04:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.127.194] (50-0-36-93.dsl.dynamic.sonic.net. [50.0.36.93]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id vd8sm204606744pac.12.2014.04.22.10.04.00 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:04:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5356A0FF.3010109@monetize.io> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:03:59 -0700 From: Mark Friedenbach Organization: Monetize.io Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tamas Blummer References: <1927948.OEZHQcsQ9n@crushinator> <2025496.b5Y3n7qx8B@crushinator> <1582E990-4E14-4EF7-9C9C-AA505B815104@bitsofproof.com> <53568B87.8040009@monetize.io> <11528A13-5D66-4D2B-BEE0-1C26F9987BC8@bitsofproof.com> In-Reply-To: <11528A13-5D66-4D2B-BEE0-1C26F9987BC8@bitsofproof.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. X-Headers-End: 1Wce76-00024E-6d 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 17:04:11 -0000 What I was saying is that while it may or may not make sense to have separate prefixes for testnet, it makes no sense to have per-alt prefixes. On 04/22/2014 08:49 AM, Tamas Blummer wrote: > I use several test chains while testing my software, the official test > net, a standalone net in house and even chains only created on the fly > for unit tests. I found no use of distinguishing serialization of keys > while using any of them. > > If you have some deep insights about why this is needed share it, as I > am not goint to guess your valuable thoughts. > > Regards, > > Tamas Blummer > http://bitsofproof.com > > On 22.04.2014, at 17:32, Mark Friedenbach > wrote: > >> Testnet vs mainnet is quite a separate issue than bitcoin vs altcoin. >> Unfortunately few of the alts ever figured this out. >