trelease notes - electrum - Electrum Bitcoin wallet
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HTML Author: ThomasV <thomasv@electrum.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 22:27:06 +0100
release notes
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These values are identical for mainnet and testnet; tpub/tprv
prefixes are no longer used in testnet wallets.
- - The Wallet Import Format (WIF) is similarly extended. After a
- base58-encoded key is decoded to binary, its first byte encodes
- the script type:
+ - The Wallet Import Format (WIF) is similarly extended for segwit
+ scripts. After a base58-encoded key is decoded to binary, its
+ first byte encodes the script type:
+
* 128 + 0: p2pkh
* 128 + 1: p2wpkh
- * 128 + 2: p2wpkh-p2sh
+ * 128 + 2: p2wpkh-in-p2sh
* 128 + 5: p2sh
* 128 + 6: p2wsh
- * 128 + 7: p2wsh-p2sh
+ * 128 + 7: p2wsh-in-p2sh
+
+ The distinction between p2sh and p2pkh in private key means that
+ it is not possible to import a p2sh private key and associate it
+ to a p2pkh address.
* A new version of the Electrum protocol is required by the client
(version 1.1). Servers using older versions of the protocol will