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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:48:41 -0700
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From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
To: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] New BIP32 structure
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com> wrote:
> In that case, maybe it makes sense to define another purpose id
> without accounts as well already.
>
> I believe many simple wallets will find multiple subwallets too
> burdening for the user experience, or not worth the technical
> complexity.

Or implement them but in a form where the different wallets can have
different security policies and thus wouldn't share a common piece of
private key material.  I can see it being pretty confusing to have
multiple wallets which are both sharing a private key and not sharing
a private key.