Just posted this on the wiki BIP-13 discussion - should I make it into a BIP of
its own ?
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The version portion of the address has so far been labeled network id, and
indicates from which network and which chain the address can be used for. I
think that this change from network id to version
RE:
base58-encode: [one-byte network ID][20-byte hash][one-byte address
class][3-byte checksum]
How will the code distinguish between the old scheme:
[one-byte-version][20-byte-hash][4-byte-checksum]
and the new?
1 in 256 old addresses will have a first-byte-of-checksum that matches the
new
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