Luke-Jr [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-04-23 📝 Original message:On Wednesday, April 23, ...
📅 Original date posted:2014-04-23
📝 Original message:On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 7:29:04 PM Pavol Rusnak wrote:
> On 04/23/2014 09:00 PM, Tier Nolan wrote:
> > The point is to have a single system that is compatible over a large
> > number of systems.
>
> There is such system and it is called BIP32.
>
> On the other hand, in BIP64 we try to put a set of restrictions and
> rules on top of BIP32. There will always be some special usecases where
> BIP64 is not a good fit and there's no reason why you cannot use BIP32
> in a different manner using a different "purpose" field.
>
> Examples: Electrum does not want to use accounts and they start to use
> scheme m/65'/change/address (where change = 0 or 1). Or Andreas
> Schildbach wants to have refunds chain so he uses m/66'/chain/address
> (where chain = 0, 1 or 2).
>
> We wanted to find one good solution that fits all, but unfortunately it
> turned out everyone wants something a little bit different.
Why do clients need to use the features in BIP 64? If Electrum doesn't want to
use accounts, then it can just use account 0 for everything. Refund chains are
definitely a third case that should be added to the external and
internal/change address division... and a wallet not implementing refund
addresses would simply not use that chain.
Luke
📝 Original message:On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 7:29:04 PM Pavol Rusnak wrote:
> On 04/23/2014 09:00 PM, Tier Nolan wrote:
> > The point is to have a single system that is compatible over a large
> > number of systems.
>
> There is such system and it is called BIP32.
>
> On the other hand, in BIP64 we try to put a set of restrictions and
> rules on top of BIP32. There will always be some special usecases where
> BIP64 is not a good fit and there's no reason why you cannot use BIP32
> in a different manner using a different "purpose" field.
>
> Examples: Electrum does not want to use accounts and they start to use
> scheme m/65'/change/address (where change = 0 or 1). Or Andreas
> Schildbach wants to have refunds chain so he uses m/66'/chain/address
> (where chain = 0, 1 or 2).
>
> We wanted to find one good solution that fits all, but unfortunately it
> turned out everyone wants something a little bit different.
Why do clients need to use the features in BIP 64? If Electrum doesn't want to
use accounts, then it can just use account 0 for everything. Refund chains are
definitely a third case that should be added to the external and
internal/change address division... and a wallet not implementing refund
addresses would simply not use that chain.
Luke