Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 32 HD wallets, accounts should be labels not numbers

2012-12-03 Thread Pieter Wuille
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 06:48:34AM -0800, Amir Taaki wrote: > ok, also what is the reasoning behind serialising points using a compressed > format before going into the hash function? I'm looking at the sec1-v2.pdf > and the compression format is a little confusing. I don't think there is a compel

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 32 HD wallets, accounts should be labels not numbers

2012-12-03 Thread Amir Taaki
prime field so we follow step 2.2.1 From: Pieter Wuille To: Amir Taaki Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" Sent: Monday, December 3, 2012 2:54 PM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 32 HD wallets, accounts should be labels not numbers

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 32 HD wallets, accounts should be labels not numbers

2012-12-03 Thread Pieter Wuille
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Amir Taaki wrote: > Can this be amended? I think it makes much more sense to allow people to > input labels not numbers at this level. > > General category names for different accounts is much more human than > numbers, and you can still use incrementing numbers if

[Bitcoin-development] BIP 32 HD wallets, accounts should be labels not numbers

2012-12-03 Thread Amir Taaki
Can this be amended? I think it makes much more sense to allow people to input labels not numbers at this level. General category names for different accounts is much more human than numbers, and you can still use incrementing numbers if you prefer.