From: Thomas Voegtlin <thomasv@electrum.org>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP Status updates (including to Active/Final Status) - BIP 39, BIP 43, BIP 44, BIP 67, BIP 111, BIP 125, BIP 130
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 09:56:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <756a4e04-c42d-cd61-794d-59f159c109b5@electrum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57BEA0B0.3090308@jonasschnelli.ch>
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Le 25/08/2016 à 09:39, Jonas Schnelli via bitcoin-dev a écrit :
> (I think this case if not completely unrealistic):
>
> What would happen, if a user gave out 21 addresses, then address0 had
> receive funds in +180 days after generation where address21 had receive
> funds immediately (all other addresses never received a tx).
>
> In a scan, address0 would be detected at <address-birthday>+180 days
> which would trigger the resize+20 of the address-lookup-window, but, we
> would require to go back 180day in order to detect received transaction
> of address21 (new lookup-window) in that case.
>
> Or do I misunderstand something?
>
>
That case is not unrealistic; a merchant might generate addresses that
are beyond their gap limit, and orders get filled at a later date.
In that case you will not get the same result when restoring your wallet
in a block-scanning wallet and in Electrum.
The lack of consideration for these cases is another issue with BIP44.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-25 7:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-23 20:12 [bitcoin-dev] BIP Status updates (including to Active/Final Status) - BIP 39, BIP 43, BIP 44, BIP 67, BIP 111, BIP 125, BIP 130 Luke Dashjr
2016-08-23 20:54 ` Kenneth Heutmaker
2016-08-24 6:59 ` Jonas Schnelli
2016-08-24 8:34 ` Gregory Maxwell
2016-08-24 12:51 ` Thomas Voegtlin
2016-08-24 13:47 ` Andreas Schildbach
2016-08-24 18:22 ` Luke Dashjr
2016-08-24 14:18 ` Jonas Schnelli
2016-08-24 14:42 ` Jochen Hoenicke
2016-08-25 7:39 ` Jonas Schnelli
2016-08-25 7:56 ` Thomas Voegtlin [this message]
2016-08-25 8:08 ` Jonas Schnelli
2016-08-25 8:12 ` Jonas Schnelli
2016-08-25 8:50 ` Marek Palatinus
2016-08-25 9:02 ` Pieter Wuille
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