[Bitcoin-development] New BIP32 structure

Jeff Garzik jgarzik at bitpay.com
Thu Mar 27 15:43:09 UTC 2014


On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:09 AM, Tamas Blummer <tamas at bitsofproof.com> wrote:
> A notable suggestion was to instead of building a directory of magic numbers
> (like 0 for Bitcoin, 1 for Litecoin etc) use a hash of the word "Bitcoin",
> "Litecoin", "Dogecoin", so collosion is unlikely and
> cetral directory is not needed.

+1 good idea

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Jeff Garzik
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