Re: [bitcoin-dev] New serialization/encoding format for key material

2018-05-30 Thread Jonas Schnelli via bitcoin-dev
Hi > - Visually Comparing two keys to find if they are same (Important) > - Different wallet software could set different birthday/gap limit. creating > different xpub/xprv for the same set of mathematically derived individual > keys. This removes the decoupling between key and wallet metadata

[bitcoin-core-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.16.1 release candidate 1 available

2018-05-30 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-core-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Binaries for bitcoin Core version 0.16.1rc1 are available from: https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.16.1/test.rc1/ Source code can be found on github under the signed tag https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/v0.16.1rc1 This is

Re: [bitcoin-dev] New serialization/encoding format for key material

2018-05-30 Thread shiva sitamraju via bitcoin-dev
The idea to add birthdate and gap limit sounds very good and addresses lots of problems users are facing. However, adding birthday to keys breaks two basic properties - Visually Comparing two keys to find if they are same (Important) - Different wallet software could set different birthday/gap

Re: [bitcoin-dev] New serialization/encoding format for key material

2018-05-30 Thread Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 6:30 AM, shiva sitamraju via bitcoin-dev wrote: > The idea to add birthdate and gap limit sounds very good and addresses lots > of problems users are facing. > > However, adding birthday to keys breaks two basic properties > > - Visually Comparing two keys to find if they