Out of curiosity: What other address formats are in development?

On 11/09/2016 07:42 PM, Matt Corallo wrote:
> I'm confused, it seems you're implementing BIP 142, which was withdrawn. 
> There is currently no proposed (AFAIK) address format for P2WSH/P2WPKH 
> scripts, though there is a ton of ongoing work in building a TON better 
> address format for it.
> 
> On November 9, 2016 7:25:55 AM PST, Andreas Schildbach 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> (this is a followup to
>> https://github.com/bitcoinj/bitcoinj/issues/1312)
>>
>> Great to hear you're working on segwit! It's much appreciated.
>>
>> I would first invest some time to decide if a segwit address is
>> actually
>> similar enough to a regular Bitcoin address to be implemented with the
>> same class. In theory, it could also be another subclass of
>> VersionedChecksummedBytes.
>>
>> If your decision is you want a shared implementation for both types of
>> addresses (and your code seems to proove this), then I agree the
>> constant needs to go sooner or later. I would not worry too much about
>> backwards compatibility here, but marking it deprecated seems fine to
>> me
>> for now too.
>>
>>
>> On 11/09/2016 03:28 PM, Jean-Pierre Rupp wrote:
>>> I have been working on segwit addresses on my fork of this code. I
>>> noticed that the |Address| class has a static property |LENGTH| that
>> is
>>> set to 20. In order to work properly with segwit, the |LENGTH|
>> property
>>> has to be set individually per address instance, or not at all. I for
>>> now left it at 20 and marked it |@Deprecated|. I would like to know
>> if
>>> the property should instead be removed, even if it breaks backwards
>>> compatibility. My code is here
>>> <https://github.com/xenog/bitcoinj/tree/segwit>.
> 


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