📅 Original date posted:2014-04-23
📝 Original message:On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 8:16:45 PM Pavol Rusnak wrote:
> On 04/23/2014 10:09 PM, Luke-Jr wrote:
> > Scan all branches for UTXOs, then you have the balance for the wallet.
> > Account balances are metadata, so cannot be known from the seed alone.
> > If you want to have a way to restore accounts, you must define some more
> > detailed wallet file format (which could be built on top of this).
>
> I think one of the following is happening:
>
> a) you have not read the document
> b) you don't understand what accounts are, because you have not read
> the document
> c) you don't understand how restoring accounts work, because you
> have not read the document
> d) you don't understand that accounts funds are not meant to be mixed
> together, because you have not read the document
> e) I got your emails wrong because I am not a native speaker,
> but please read the the document ;-)
You missed one:
f) I missed the part where BIP 32 redefined "account" to mean "subwallet"
instead of what has traditionally been called "account" in Bitcoin.
:)
In that case, single-subwallet wallet software probably needs to have the user
provide a subwallet number in addition to the seed.
Luke
Luke-Jr [ARCHIVE] /
npub1dt…u7wrs
2023-06-07 15:17:57
in reply to nevent1q…2x78
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