[bitcoin-dev] Considering starting a toy full-node implementation. Any advice?

2018-11-06 Thread rze via bitcoin-dev
Hello, I'm considering to start developing a toy full validating node implementation (no wallet, no mining) for educational purposes. Some questions: 1) which resource do you suggest for as a reference for the protocol? 2) which part do you suggest to start with? 3) I was thinking to use btcd a

[bitcoin-dev] draft proposal: change forwarding (improved fungibility through wallet interoperability)

2018-11-06 Thread Yuval Kogman via bitcoin-dev
Hello, I would like to propose a method based on BIP32 (and optionally BIP44) for improving fungibility and on chain privacy with wallets for which this is not a primary concern, requiring minimal changes to allow such wallets to safely forward change outputs to more specialized wallets. This is i

[bitcoin-dev] BIP- & SLIP-0039 -- better multi-language support

2018-11-06 Thread Weiji Guo via bitcoin-dev
Hello everyone, I just realized that BIP-0039 is language dependent. I was assuming the other way till I looked closer. The way the seed is derived from a BIP-0039 entropy, as is shown below, depends on which language to generate the mnemonic sentence: Entropy <=> Mnemonic Sentence => PBKDF2 =