<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1tjephawh7fdf6358jufuh5eyxwauzrjqa7qn50pglee4tayc2ntqcjtl6r</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1tjephawh7fdf6358jufuh5eyxwauzrjqa7qn50pglee4tayc2ntqcjtl6r</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2014-04-08&#xA;📝 Original message:I still don&#39;t understand the purpose of cointype. If you don&#39;t want to&#xA;risk reusing the same keys across different currencies, just don&#39;t use&#xA;the same seed or the same account? That is purely a client-side issue.&#xA;&#xA;If the consensus is to add the cointype anyway, can we fix it to be&#xA;equal to the 4-byte magic in the serialization (after setting the high&#xA;bit to true)? That way there aren&#39;t two 4-byte magic codes that need&#xA;to be defined for each, and at the same time make it obvious from the&#xA;serialized form what it is for.&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:43 PM, slush &lt;slush at centrum.cz&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt; After some off-list discussion about details with wallet developers, it&#xA;&gt; seems that structure&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; m/&lt;cointype&gt;&#39;/&lt;account&gt;&#39;/&lt;change&gt;/&lt;n&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; fulfill requirements of all wallet developers around, including myTrezor,&#xA;&gt; Electrum, Multibit, Wallet32 and other software is willing to adapt once&#xA;&gt; anything will be standardized (i.e. they don&#39;t care).&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; Because I think that everybody told their comments to the topic already and&#xA;&gt; because it seems that there&#39;s quite wide agreement on that, I would like to&#xA;&gt; close the discussion and finally implement these paths into our software.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; Cheers,&#xA;&gt; Marek&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 3:59 PM, slush &lt;slush at centrum.cz&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; I agree that &#39;version&#39; field of bip32 is not necessary and xpriv/xpub&#xA;&gt;&gt; should be enough for all cases; there&#39;s actually no need to use different&#xA;&gt;&gt; BIP32 roots for different altcoins.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; I&#39;m happily using one xpub for Bitcoin/Testnet/Litecoin at once, and by&#xA;&gt;&gt; having the &#34;cointype&#34; distinction in the bip32 path itself, I&#39;m sure that I&#xA;&gt;&gt; don&#39;t reuse the same pubkey across blockchains which may be a privacy issue&#xA;&gt;&gt; otherwise.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; Marek&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Pieter Wuille &lt;pieter.wuille at gmail.com&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Pavol Rusnak &lt;stick at gk2.sk&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; Cointype in path is for separation purposes, not for identification.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; I don&#39;t understand what that gains you.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; --&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; Pieter&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; _______________________________________________&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; Bitcoin-development mailing list&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;&gt; Put Bad Developers to Shame&#xA;&gt; Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration&#xA;&gt; Continuously Automate Build, Test &amp; Deployment&#xA;&gt; Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud.&#xA;&gt; http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees&#xA;&gt; _______________________________________________&#xA;&gt; Bitcoin-development mailing list&#xA;&gt; Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net&#xA;&gt; https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development&#xA;&gt;</html></oembed>