[bitcoin-dev] RFC: HD Bitmessage address derivation based on BIP-43

Luke Dashjr luke at dashjr.org
Fri Sep 4 00:06:05 UTC 2015


On Tuesday, June 30, 2015 5:53:05 PM Justus Ranvier wrote:
> Monetas has developed a Bitmessage address derivation method from an
> HD seed based on BIP-43.
> 
> https://github.com/monetas/bips/blob/bitmessage/bip-bm01.mediawiki
>
> We're proposing this as a BIP per the BIP-43 recommendation in order
> to reserve a purpose code.

Bitmessage is not Bitcoin, thus this falls outside the scope of the BIP 
process. Since BIP 43 is still a draft, I propose modifying it to refer non-
Bitcoin purpose codes to the SLIP repository:
    https://doc.satoshilabs.com/slips/

Luke


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