On 03/27/2014 04:57 PM, Allen Piscitello wrote: > 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?
That magic number is something I find very unfortunate and superflous in BIP-32 design. Its only purpose is to distinguish BIP-32 trees for various altcoins, but it doesn't make sense at all once you start storing various altcoins in the same tree using the proposed /m/cointype/reserved'/account'/change/n scheme. I would love to see that removed from BIP-32 and use always 0x0488B21E/0x0488ADE4 (xpub/xpriv), but that is for different discussion I guess. -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol Rusnak <st...@gk2.sk> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
