Tamas Blummer [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-04-23 📝 Original message:The most useful meta data ...

📅 Original date posted:2014-04-23
📝 Original message:The most useful meta data to optimize chain scan is the key birth date, then the allowed gap size.

Tamas Blummer
http://bitsofproof.com

On 23.04.2014, at 20:39, Tier Nolan <tier.nolan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Different users could have different gap limit requirements. 20 seems very low as the default.
>
> A merchant could easily send 20 addresses in a row to customers and none of them bother to actually buy anything.
>
> Setting the gap limit to high is just a small extra cost in that case.
>
> Bip-32 serialization doesn't have a way of adding meta data though.
>
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