[Bitcoin-development] New BIP32 structure

Luke-Jr luke at dashjr.org
Wed Apr 23 20:01:05 UTC 2014


On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 7:57:46 PM slush wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Luke-Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> > Any wallet should import all the coins just fine, it just wouldn't *use*
> > any
> > account other than 0. Remember addresses are used to receive bitcoins;
> > once the UTXOs are in the wallet, they are no longer associated with the
> > address or
> > any other details of how they were received.
> 
> Wallet don't see UTXO until it scans all branches/accounts on HD node
> import.

Yes, it should scan all possible (under the BIP-defined structure) branches 
regardless of which features it supports.

Luke




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