Yes, it is expensive but possible to discover any funds associated with a seed, provided there are set limits to:
1. gap of address use (e.g. 20) 2. depth of hierarchy (e.g. 6) 3. gap in use of parallel branches (e.g. 0) I would pick the limits in brackets above. Regards, Tamas Blummer http://bitsofproof.com On 26.04.2014, at 12:48, Tier Nolan <tier.no...@gmail.com> wrote: > Maybe the solution is to have a defined way to import an unknown wallet? > > This means that the gap space and a search ordering needs to be defined. > > Given a blockchain and a root seed, it should be possible to find all the > addresses for that root seed. > > The hierarchy that the wallet actually uses could be anything.
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