tadd WIF extension to release notes - electrum - Electrum Bitcoin wallet
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DIR commit c95e0833e408e079ab2229e3bca186ce98c2cd94
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HTML Author: ThomasV <thomasv@electrum.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 22:05:07 +0100
add WIF extension to release notes
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M RELEASE-NOTES | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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DIR diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
t@@ -27,14 +27,28 @@
trezor/ledger users will need to enter a BIP49 derivation path.
- The BIP32 master keys of segwit wallets are serialized using new
- version numbers. Version numbers are user visible, with the
- following prefixes:
+ version numbers. The new version numbers encode the script type,
+ and they result in the following prefixes:
+
* xpub/xprv : p2pkh or p2sh
* ypub/yprv : p2wpkh-in-p2sh
* Ypub/Yprv : p2wsh-in-p2sh
* zpub/zprv : p2wpkh
* Zpub/Zprv : p2wsh
+ 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:
+ * 128 + 0: p2pkh
+ * 128 + 1: p2wpkh
+ * 128 + 2: p2wpkh-p2sh
+ * 128 + 5: p2sh
+ * 128 + 6: p2wsh
+ * 128 + 7: p2wsh-p2sh
+
* A new version of the Electrum protocol is required by the client
(version 1.1). Servers using older versions of the protocol will
not be displayed in the GUI.