Received: from sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.193] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-3.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WcWPv-0008AU-Fd for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 08:51:03 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.24]) by sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) id 1WcWPo-0001dH-Ph for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 08:51:03 +0000 Received: from omta16.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.88]) by qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id swgT1n0031uE5Es51wggrV; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 08:40:40 +0000 Received: from crushinator.localnet ([IPv6:2601:6:4800:47f:219:d1ff:fe75:dc2f]) by omta16.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id swgf1n00c4VnV2P3cwggaL; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 08:40:40 +0000 From: Matt Whitlock To: Tamas Blummer Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 04:40:39 -0400 Message-ID: <4586234.JVHRmdZYKl@crushinator> User-Agent: KMail/4.13 (Linux/3.12.13-gentoo; KDE/4.13.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1582E990-4E14-4EF7-9C9C-AA505B815104@bitsofproof.com> References: <2025496.b5Y3n7qx8B@crushinator> <1582E990-4E14-4EF7-9C9C-AA505B815104@bitsofproof.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, no trust [76.96.62.24 listed in list.dnswl.org] 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature X-Headers-End: 1WcWPo-0001dH-Ph Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Presenting a BIP for Shamir's Secret Sharing of Bitcoin private keys X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 08:51:03 -0000 On Tuesday, 22 April 2014, at 10:39 am, Tamas Blummer wrote: > Extra encoding for testnet is quite useless complexity in face of many alt chains. > BIPS should be chain agnostic. I would argue that Bitcoin should be altcoin-agnostic. :) I have no interest in catering to altcoins. But that's just me.