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authorWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2014-06-16 17:38:11 +0200
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2014-06-16 17:38:11 +0200
commit91f026a40f4c410d7ae24fd4ad6f966660c339b4 (patch)
treed32bb6b3491548c3c6985e0d9ecfbd83c1a31043 /bip-0044.mediawiki
parent83ade87ba339b1895a70ea172e2369810bdc3708 (diff)
parentba1cca2225152fc0fa3a48b4b392fe713ea7d035 (diff)
Merge pull request #66 from satoshilabs/master
bip-0044: scan just external chains
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@@ -119,7 +119,8 @@ still continue with discovery.
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.
+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.