commit c95e0833e408e079ab2229e3bca186ce98c2cd94 parent 645e57f09075120f10d45261b03ffab3f814047a Author: ThomasV <thomasv@electrum.org> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 22:05:07 +0100 add WIF extension to release notes Diffstat:
| M | RELEASE-NOTES | | | 18 | ++++++++++++++++-- |
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -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.