📅 Original date posted:2014-04-22
📝 Original message:On Tuesday, 22 April 2014, at 10:43 am, Tamas Blummer wrote:
> It is not about taste, but the fact that BIPs are used by many chains.
> Alts are useful for at least for experiments, and I think that the notion of main and testnet is superseeded by a wide choice of chains.
There aren't enough distinct bytes to allow for every altcoin. I believe what they do is their own business and is outside the scope of a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal.
If your argument were valid, then we would also have to apply it to private keys. Why do we bother specifying a separate encoding for Bitcoin testnet private keys? There are so many altcoins, after all.
Matt Whitlock [ARCHIVE] /
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2023-06-07 17:17:16
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