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Learn Ethereum
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Learn Ethereum

by Xun (Brian) Wu, Zhihong Zou, Dongying Song
September 2019
Beginner to intermediate
540 pages
13h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Multi-currency and multi-account wallets (BIP-44)

BIP-44 is actually a particular application of BIP-43. BIP-44 has the title multi-account hierarchy for deterministic wallets. It supports the following features:

  • Multiple accounts
  • Multiple coins
  • External chains per account
  • Internal chains per account
  • Millions of addresses per chain

In BIP-44, five levels in the BIP-32 path are defined like so. Notice that the fourth and fifth level are not hardened derivations like the previous three levels:

m / purpose' / coin_type' / account' / change / address_index

We will explain each level in detail:

  1. The purpose is set to a constant 44'. Notice that a hardened child key is used.
  2. The coin type varies, depending on the type of cryptocurrency. We've ...
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