[Bitcoin-development] Presenting a BIP for Shamir's Secret Sharing of Bitcoin private keys

Matt Whitlock bip at mattwhitlock.name
Tue Apr 22 08:35:36 UTC 2014


On Tuesday, 22 April 2014, at 4:11 am, Matt Whitlock wrote:
> On Tuesday, 22 April 2014, at 10:06 am, Jan Møller wrote:
> >  - I think it is very useful to define different prefixes for testnet
> > keys/seeds. As a developer I use the testnet every day, and many of our
> > users use it for trying out new functionality. Mixing up keys meant for
> > testnet and mainnet is bad.
> 
> A fair point. I'll add some prefixes for testnet.

Testnet encodings are added: https://github.com/whitslack/btctool/blob/bip/bip-xxxx.mediawiki




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