Re: [Bitcoin-development] Alternate HD path structure: BIP, blog, or wat?

2015-06-19 Thread Matt Smith
I'm not sure I understand your question about the need to store paths in the wallet database -- there's no way to infer the path of an address inside an HD wallet from the address alone (short of an exhaustive search), and HD wallets need to store either the paths, addresses, or both that have

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Alternate HD path structure: BIP, blog, or wat?

2015-06-19 Thread Andreas Petersson
m/##'/0'/99'/0' where 99 is the identifier for, say, counterparty What is stopping you from using m/44'/9'/a'/c/i as descibed here: http://doc.satoshilabs.com/slips/slip-0044.html to avoid having an internal mapping from 9'- 0' to find out what blockchain to query, this sounds like it should

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Alternate HD path structure: BIP, blog, or wat?

2015-06-19 Thread Matt @ Envrin Group
Say you generate a child key using the path m/6'/4'/7'/99'/0/196, which is what your proposed path structure would be, and it results in the address 1DpY7PtPVURvjrGsdAjbZAZ7cL9GD8tc5w. When the wallet notices a transaction in the blockchain that has 1DpY7PtPVURvjrGsdAjbZAZ7cL9GD8tc5w as an