From d01ba11ecc1c38fabbd3aa3ae307f6b46039a783 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marco Pontello Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2016 22:30:07 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Added clarification for forked chains. --- bip-MarcoPon-BlockchainURI.mediawiki | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/bip-MarcoPon-BlockchainURI.mediawiki b/bip-MarcoPon-BlockchainURI.mediawiki index 2380f80c..5c0881fa 100644 --- a/bip-MarcoPon-BlockchainURI.mediawiki +++ b/bip-MarcoPon-BlockchainURI.mediawiki @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ The URI follow this simple form: Where: ;chain: -: (optional) to uniquely point to a specific chain, the hash of the corresponding genesis block is used (leading zeros included). In principle some kind of alias/mnemonic could also be used, but that is out of the scope of this BIP, and maybe could be developed in another subsequent one. If omitted (which would be the usual case), Bitcoin's mainnet is assumed. As a reference, see for example this code fragment from Bitcoin chainparams.cpp source: +: (optional) to uniquely point to a specific chain, the hash of the corresponding genesis block is used (leading zeros included). For forked chains, the hash of the relevant first block after fork is used. In principle some kind of alias/mnemonic could also be used, but that is out of the scope of this BIP, and maybe could be developed in another subsequent one. If omitted (which would be the usual case), Bitcoin's mainnet is assumed. As a reference, see for example this code fragment from Bitcoin chainparams.cpp source: const std::map CChainParams::supportedChains = boost::assign::map_list_of ( "main", uint256S("0x000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f"))