On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Danny Thorpe via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > Rather than using an inhumanly long hex string from the genesis hash to > distinguish between mainnet and testnet, why not use the network magic bytes > instead? Much shorter, just as distinct.
There's nothing stopping two coins having the same magic bytes, but communicating on separate ports. > I'd still prefer a common network name mapping for the sake of humanity. Few > bitcoin library implementations use the same string names for mainnet and > testnet. This BIP could simply define one string name alias for each > supported network and leave mapping to local lingo to the implementors. The only sane way to me see to have cointype like BIP44. See https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0044.mediawiki#coin-type _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
