[Bitcoin-development] New BIP32 structure

[Luke-Jr]

On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 8:04:03 PM Pavol Rusnak wrote:
> On 04/23/2014 10:01 PM, Luke-Jr wrote:
> > Yes, it should scan all possible (under the BIP-defined structure)
> > branches regardless of which features it supports.
> 
> So you suggest to scan for accounts, show balances but don't allow user
> to spend them? Does not seem right to me.

Scan all branches for UTXOs, then you have the balance for the wallet. Account 
balances are metadata, so cannot be known from the seed alone. If you want to 
have a way to restore accounts, you must define some more detailed wallet file 
format (which could be built on top of this).

On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 8:04:35 PM you wrote:
> On 23.04.2014, at 22:02, Luke-Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 8:01:16 PM Tamas Blummer wrote:
> >> The wallet has to know how it got the UTXO in order to be able to spend
> >> it.
> > 
> > No it doesn't... Just the assigned scriptPubKey and secret(s) required to
> > satisfy it.
> 
> To know the secret it needs to know which key coordinate to use that is
> logically the same as knowing the address it used to receive it.

Sure, it *knows* what address was used to receive it. But at the point it's a 
UTXO, that address is no longer relevant.

Luke