[Bitcoin-development] Multisign payment protocol?

[Mike Hearn]

You can follow HDW progress in bitcoinj on this branch:

  https://github.com/bitcoinj/bitcoinj/commits/keychain

I've been working on it for a couple of months now. Electrum (Thomas V) is
also making good progress, and Trezor already uses HD wallets. I think most
popular end user wallets except blockchain.info and Bitcoin Core will
support HDW soon enough.

At any rate, as Gavin said already, the best way to make a feature you want
happen is just to write it. Devrandom is already working on a watchdog
service, as is another group (TrustedCoin), and that's an obvious use for
multisig/p2sh. They have API's already, it's just a case of standardising
them once we get more experience.




On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Gary Rowe <g.rowe at froot.co.uk> wrote:

> Speaking from the MultiBit perspective, all future protocol development
> (with the exception of critical security and network compatibility fixes)
> will be put into a HD wallet. Over time we want to see "MultiBit Classic"
> gracefully retire and be fully superseded.
>
> Right now, HD is not out there but there is a lot of work going on between
> wallet developers to harmonise on HD implementation through BIP32/39. The
> result of that work should see a significant migration away from random
> private keys.
>
> Thus it would appear likely that by the time this protocol sees widespread
> use the presence of HD is likely to be rising fast or possibly dominant.
>
> At MultiBit we anticipate a release of HD code within 2 months, with
> private beta occurring within weeks. Trezor and Electrum may be earlier
> than this. As far as I am aware both Hive and Haskoin are committed to HD.
>
> If anyone wants early access to the alpha code, let me know and I'll make
> the arrangements.
>
>
> On 11 March 2014 14:44, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik at bitpay.com> wrote:
>
>> (#include <rant.h>)
>>
>> Right now, HD is hot air.  Let us end the pie-in-the-sky assumptions
>> about how HD will save the day, with zero code to back it up.  Bitcoin
>> Wallet purportedly fails to rotate addresses, a privacy ugly, because
>> of this Waiting For Godot situation.  An attempt to add a simple,
>> stateless RPC stalled because we are all Waiting For Godot, also:
>> https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3520
>>
>> Until the major user wallets and bitcoind have -basic- HD support, it
>> is premature to build anything on top of HD.  We really have no clue
>> at this juncture how difficult will be the HD rollout.
>>
>> --
>> Jeff Garzik
>> Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist
>> BitPay, Inc.      https://bitpay.com/
>>
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