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From: Thomas Voegtlin <thomasv@electrum.org>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bip44 extension for P2SH/P2WSH/...
Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 10:53:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <573838F2.4030604@electrum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57374EF3.3000705@jonasschnelli.ch>


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Le 14/05/2016 18:14, Jonas Schnelli via bitcoin-dev a écrit :
> 
> AFAIK: Bip39 import (cross-wallet) is not supported by [...] Electrum [2] .
> 

That is correct. There are several reasons why I decided not to use
BIP39 in Electrum. One of them was that BIP39 seed phrases do not
include a version number. A version number is needed in order to
maintain backward compatibility, everytime you change the address
derivation.

Electrum will allocate a new version number for seed phrases that should
be derived to segwit addresses.

I guess BIP39 designers will have to change the semantics of their
checksum bits, in order to encode a version number for segwit.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-05-15  9:08 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
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 [this message]
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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