slush [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-04-08 📝 Original message:tl;dr; It is dangerous to ...
📅 Original date posted:2014-04-08
📝 Original message:tl;dr;
It is dangerous to expect that other seed than "xprv" does not contain
bitcoins or that "xprv" contains only bitcoins, because technically are
both situations possible. It is still safer to do the lookup; the magic
itself is ambiguous.
Marek
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:40 PM, slush <slush at centrum.cz> wrote:
>
> Serialization magic of bip32 seed is in my opinion completely unnecessary.
> Most of software does not care about it anyway; You can use xprv/xpub pair
> for main net, testnet, litecoin, dogecoin, whatevercoin.
>
> Instead using the same seed (xprv) and then separate the chains *inside*
> the bip32 path seems more useful to me.
>
> Marek
>
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📝 Original message:tl;dr;
It is dangerous to expect that other seed than "xprv" does not contain
bitcoins or that "xprv" contains only bitcoins, because technically are
both situations possible. It is still safer to do the lookup; the magic
itself is ambiguous.
Marek
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:40 PM, slush <slush at centrum.cz> wrote:
>
> Serialization magic of bip32 seed is in my opinion completely unnecessary.
> Most of software does not care about it anyway; You can use xprv/xpub pair
> for main net, testnet, litecoin, dogecoin, whatevercoin.
>
> Instead using the same seed (xprv) and then separate the chains *inside*
> the bip32 path seems more useful to me.
>
> Marek
>
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