[Bitcoin-development] Version bytes

John Smith witchspace81 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 8 08:18:19 UTC 2011


Sorry, that last message got broken off.

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Stefan Thomas <moon at justmoon.de> wrote:
>
>> Hey Pieter,
>>
>> > Otherwise, we could reset testnet (not actually reset, just
>> > change its addresses a bit), and simply state odd=testnet, even=realnet.
>>
>> We could use the XOR hack for now and remove it the next time we reset
>> testnet. But I do think the 111 is baggage we want to get rid of. Using
>> the lsb as a simple flag is much cleaner.
>>
>

I agree it is cleaner, but I think breaking compatiblity with older address
(even testnet) is not a good idea right now. It is important to build an
image of stability and backward compatibility.

So I vote for the XOR 111 hack :)

JS
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