I've recently been playing around with descriptors, and they are very nice to work with. They should become the standard for master public keys IMO.
One downside is that users cant easily copypaste them to-and-fro to make watch-only wallet. The descriptors contain parenthesis and commas which stop highlighting by double-clicking. Also the syntax might look scary to newbs. An obvious solution is to base64 encode the descriptors. Then users would get a text blog as the master public key without any extra details to bother them, and developers can easily base64 decode for developing with them. A complication might be the descriptor checksum. If there's a typo in the base64 text then that could decode into multiple character errors in the descriptor, which might be problematic for the checksum. Maybe the descriptor could be base64 encoded without the checksum, then attach the checksum to the end of the base64 text. Thoughts? I didn't come up with these ideas, they came from discussions with achow101. _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
