From 13e46965efd4a2d912865b326764e9d22ba17f90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gregory Maxwell Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 00:22:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Created Comments:BIP 0044 (markdown) --- Comments:BIP-0044.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 Comments:BIP-0044.md diff --git a/Comments:BIP-0044.md b/Comments:BIP-0044.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..301c6b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Comments:BIP-0044.md @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Mandatory use of public derived keys is unsafe for any software which supports private key export and will result (has resulted) in funds loss. The lack of hooks for versioning is poor for future extensibility (though this could be handled at a higher level). I normally recommend against implementing this except for hardware wallets. -- Greg Maxwell 2017-03-14