[bitcoin-dev] Bech32m BIP: new checksum, and usage for segwit address

Pieter Wuille bitcoin-dev at wuille.net
Tue Jan 5 01:25:29 UTC 2021


On Monday, January 4, 2021 4:14 PM, Pieter Wuille <bitcoin-dev at wuille.net> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> here is a BIP draft for changing the checksum in native segwit addresses for v1 and higher, following the discussion in https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2020-December/018293.html
>
> Overall, the idea is:
> * Define a new encoding which is a tweaked variant of Bech32, called Bech32m. It refers to the Bech32 section of BIP173, which remains in effect.
> * Define a new segwit address encoding which replaces the corresponding section in BIP173. It prescribes using Bech32 for v0 witness addresses, and Bech32m for other versions.

Of course I forgot the actual link: https://github.com/sipa/bips/blob/bip-bech32m/bip-bech32m.mediawiki

Cheers,

--
Pieter
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