Author: William Swanson Date: To: Libbitcoin Subject: Re: [Libbitcoin] testnet conditionality
On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Eric Voskuil <eric@???> wrote: > libbitcoin-explorer wallet commands no longer require recompile for
> testnet, but there are a couple of commands that are partially limited
> to mainnet until the next wave. Specifically (1) hd-public and hd-new
> always produce mainnet keys when deriving from any private key, and (2)
> the tx-encode --ouputs option is limited to mainnet payment/stealth
> addresses (with the exception of an explicit script).
I am not aware of any software that actually uses this part of the HD
spec. The general trend, in fact, has been to generate as much stuff
as possible, including altcoin keys, from the same HD tree. The
distinction between regular HD keys and "testnet" HD keys is becoming
more and more meaningless over time, so this can probably be put off
until later.