Inconsistency with the standard bip-0044 real work bitcoind #9917

issue rattrap19 opened this issue on March 4, 2017
  1. rattrap19 commented at 9:02 AM on March 4, 2017: none
    1. Software should prevent the creation of an account if a previous account does not have a transaction history (meaning none of its addresses have been used before).

    But I can easily create an account even if the previous account is empty.

    1. Address gap limit.

    I can also see that the amount has reached the account, in which there are many more consecutive addresses without a transaction history, even if the amount is sent to the address after those addresses without a transaction.

    Addresses created by the command: bitcoin-cli getnewaddress <account>

  2. rattrap19 renamed this:
    Несоответствие стандарту bip-0044 реальная работа bitcoind
    Inconsistency with the standard bip-0044 real work bitcoind
    on Mar 4, 2017
  3. laanwj commented at 9:08 AM on March 4, 2017: member

    But I can easily create an account even if the previous account is empty.

    The account system in bitcoind is kind of crappy. Do not confuse it with BIP44 accounts, it pre-dates any of that. This is why it is deprecated, and will be removed in the future. See #3816.

    I don't understand your address gap comment.

  4. laanwj added the label Wallet on Mar 4, 2017
  5. sipa commented at 9:10 AM on March 4, 2017: member

    Bitcoin Core does not implement BIP44 in any way.

  6. rattrap19 commented at 12:48 PM on March 4, 2017: none

    When will the account feature be removed then?

  7. laanwj commented at 9:58 PM on March 4, 2017: member

    When will the account feature be removed then?

    First a label API should be introduced to replace it. Hopefully that can be done for 0.15. Then something like: in 0.16 it could be disabled by default (but reenabled with an option) and in 0.17 removed completely. But it's not entirely decided yet. In any case: do not use it, it's broken.

    Closing this issue, as indeed BIP44 is not applicable at all here.

  8. laanwj closed this on Mar 4, 2017

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