The rationale was that xpubs was already a predefined standard which many
software already have serialization code for. It's simpler to just reuse what
has been defined before.
IMO, the version bytes don't matter and should be ignored. In the proposed
implementation to Bitcoin Core, the version
What’s the rational for including the version bytes in the xpub in the
GLOBAL_XPUB field? This was briefly touched upon in an earlier email from
Stepan, but I don’t think it was every fully addressed.
I am not sure if we need the whole xpub or keeping chain_code and
> public_key is enough, but I w
