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From: Pavol Rusnak <stick@satoshilabs.com>
To: Aaron Voisine <voisine@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bip44 extension for P2SH/P2WSH/...
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 19:57:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57361577.7060207@satoshilabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACq0ZD7mLCaoGpcVEp7NfW=6nsEA39tZp+G8oeySygMEyhuwQA@mail.gmail.com>

On 13/05/16 18:59, Aaron Voisine wrote:
> This scheme is independent of the number of accounts. It works with BIP44
> as well as BIP43 purpose 0, or any other BIP43 purpose/layout. Instead of
> overloading the account index to indicate the type of address, you use the
> chain index, which is already being used to indicate what the specific
> address chain is to be used for, i.e. receive vs change addresses.

I see the advantage here. But there is a major problem here.

We came up with BIP44 so a wallet can claim it is BIP44 compatible and
you can be 100% sure that you can migrate accounts from one wallet
implementation to another. This was not previously possible when a
wallet claimed it is BIP32 compatible.

Now we have a similar problem. When there is a BIP44 wallet, does it
mean it supports segwit or not? For this reason I would like to see
another BIPXX for segwit, so a wallet can claim it is BIP44, BIP44+BIPXX
or BIPXX compatible and you'll know what other wallets are compatible
with it.

-- 
Best Regards / S pozdravom,

Pavol "stick" Rusnak
SatoshiLabs.com


  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-13 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-13 13:16 [bitcoin-dev] Bip44 extension for P2SH/P2WSH/ Daniel Weigl
2016-05-13 15:00 ` Pavol Rusnak
2016-05-13 16:03   ` Aaron Voisine
2016-05-13 16:11     ` Pavol Rusnak
2016-05-13 16:59       ` Aaron Voisine
2016-05-13 17:57         ` Pavol Rusnak [this message]
2016-05-13 21:42           ` Aaron Voisine
2016-05-14  8:16             ` Jonas Schnelli
2016-05-14 12:26               ` Jochen Hoenicke
2016-05-14 14:07               ` Pavol Rusnak
2016-05-14 16:14                 ` Jonas Schnelli
2016-05-14 17:37                   ` Kenneth Heutmaker
2016-05-15  8:53                   ` Thomas Voegtlin
2016-05-15 10:04                   ` Pavol Rusnak
2016-05-15 12:08     ` Daniel Weigl
2016-05-15 17:36       ` Aaron Voisine
2016-05-14  7:00 ` Andreas Schildbach
2016-05-14 14:08   ` Pavol Rusnak
2016-05-14 17:09     ` Aaron Voisine
2016-05-14 12:15 ` Jochen Hoenicke

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