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@ -111,35 +111,6 @@ This number is used as child index in BIP32 derivation.
Public derivation is used at this level.
==Account discovery==
When the master seed is imported from an external source the software should
start to discover the accounts in the following manner:
* derive the first accounts node (index = 0)
* derive the external chain node of this account
* scan addresses of the external chain; respect the gap limit described below
* if no transactions are found on the external chain, stop discovery
* if there are some transactions, increase the account index and go to step 1
This algorithm is successful because software should disallow creation of new
accounts if previous one has no transaction history, as described in chapter
"Account" above.
Please note that the algorithm works with the transaction history, not account
balances, so you can have an account with 0 total coins and the algorithm will
still continue with discovery.
===Address gap limit===
Address gap limit is currently set to 20. If the software hits 20 unused
addresses in a row, it expects there are no used addresses beyond this point
and stops searching the address chain. We scan just the external chains, because
internal chains receive only coins that come from the associated external chains.
Wallet software should warn when the user is trying to exceed the gap limit on
an external chain by generating a new address.
==Examples==
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