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| author | Justus Ranvier <justusranvier@riseup.net> | 2015-12-18 10:28:27 -0600 |
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| committer | Justus Ranvier <justusranvier@riseup.net> | 2015-12-18 10:47:49 -0600 |
| commit | a6f4ae5b5d3a247b6a8f2a8baec7e5b8ed165051 (patch) | |
| tree | 04456efacf3a739d3ec59076303e5201bf42f490 /bip-0047.mediawiki | |
| parent | 07ab320513843bf75b55def318d60ced47434548 (diff) | |
| download | bips-a6f4ae5b5d3a247b6a8f2a8baec7e5b8ed165051.tar.xz | |
clarify wallet recovery procedure
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diff --git a/bip-0047.mediawiki b/bip-0047.mediawiki index 650c095..066878b 100644 --- a/bip-0047.mediawiki +++ b/bip-0047.mediawiki @@ -220,7 +220,9 @@ When querying a public blockchain explorer, wallets SHOULD connect to the explor Previously-spendable funds will generally not be lost or become inaccessible after a recovery from a seed, but all information regarding previous outgoing payments will be lost. -The metadata which a wallet must store regarding the state an identity consists of: +In order to recover received funds from a seed, the wallet must obtain every notification it has ever received to its notification address, including all spent transactions. It then re-establishes its lookahead window for each subchain by scanning every derived address sequentially until it locates a contiguous block of unused addresses of a user-specified length. + +The metadata which a wallet must store to properly process outgoing transactions consists of: # A list of every payment code to which the identity has sent a notification transaction. ## This list is lost if a wallet must be recovered from a seed. |