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Please use version bytes for bech32 xpub

Open shivaenigma opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

The xpub generated by bech32 bitpay wallet is currently starting with prefix xpub

This creates multiple problems:

  • Incorrect balance display in watch only wallets / blockexplorer using xpub
  • Mismatch of xpub with other wallets like electrum, trezor, samouri
  • Incorrect address derivation from xpub - used by Merchant utilites like BtcPay

References

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/680 https://electrum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/xpub_version_bytes.html

shivaenigma avatar Feb 16 '21 08:02 shivaenigma