Justus Ranvier [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2015-09-04 📝 Original message:On 09/04/2015 01:21 PM, ...

📅 Original date posted:2015-09-04
📝 Original message:On 09/04/2015 01:21 PM, Luke Dashjr wrote:
> This is not Bitcoin's problem... Polluting the BIP repository with N non-
> Bitcoin related specifications would be.

HD generation of keypairs from a single seed for many non-conflicting
uses is a valuable and useful technique.

Intentionally making a useful technology less useful because assigning
non-colliding numbers is too hard is a strange approach to software
engineering.

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Justus Ranvier
Open Bitcoin Privacy Project
http://www.openbitcoinprivacyproject.org/
justus at openbitcoinprivacyproject.org
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