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authorAntoine Riard <ariard@student.42.fr>2019-12-10 18:08:21 -0500
committerAntoine Riard <ariard@student.42.fr>2019-12-18 13:31:32 -0500
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Document better -keypool as a look-ahead safety mechanism
If after a backup, an address is issued beyond the initial keypool range and none of the addresses in this range is seen onchain, if a wallet is restored from backup, even in case of rescan, funds may be loss due to the look-ahead buffer not being incremented and so restored wallet not detecting onchain out-of-range address as derived from its seed. This scenario is theoretically unavoidable due to the requirement of the keypool to have a max size. However, given the default keypool size, this is unlikely. Document better keypool size implications to avoid user setting a too low value.
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