Don't most of these coins have a magic number already assigned that is unique? (0xD9B4BEF9 for Bitcoin, 0x0709110B for Testnet, FBC0XB6DB for Litecoin, etc...). This seems like a good candidate for identifying coins, and also supports Testnet cases well. Maybe there are some alts without such a magic number that might prevent that?
-Allen On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Jeff Garzik <jgar...@bitpay.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:09 AM, Tamas Blummer <ta...@bitsofproof.com> > wrote: > > A notable suggestion was to instead of building a directory of magic > numbers > > (like 0 for Bitcoin, 1 for Litecoin etc) use a hash of the word > "Bitcoin", > > "Litecoin", "Dogecoin", so collosion is unlikely and > > cetral directory is not needed. > > +1 good idea > > -- > Jeff Garzik > Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist > BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >
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