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bip-0044: scan just external chains

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Pavol Rusnak 2014-05-21 17:30:55 +02:00
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@ -119,7 +119,8 @@ still continue with discovery.
Address gap limit is currently set to 20. If the software hits 20 unused
addresses in a row, it expects there are no used addresses beyond this point
and stops searching the address chain.
and stops searching the address chain. We scan just the external chains, because
internal chains receive only coins that come from the associated external chains.
Wallet software should warn when the user is trying to exceed the gap limit on
an external chain by generating a new address.