add WIF extension to release notes

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ThomasV 2017-11-01 22:05:07 +01:00
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trezor/ledger users will need to enter a BIP49 derivation path.
- The BIP32 master keys of segwit wallets are serialized using new
version numbers. Version numbers are user visible, with the
following prefixes:
version numbers. The new version numbers encode the script type,
and they result in the following prefixes:
* xpub/xprv : p2pkh or p2sh
* ypub/yprv : p2wpkh-in-p2sh
* Ypub/Yprv : p2wsh-in-p2sh
* zpub/zprv : p2wpkh
* Zpub/Zprv : p2wsh
These values are identical for mainnet and testnet; tpub/tprv
prefixes are no longer used in testnet wallets.
- The Wallet Import Format (WIF) is similarly extended. After a
base58-encoded key is decoded to binary, its first byte encodes
the script type:
* 128 + 0: p2pkh
* 128 + 1: p2wpkh
* 128 + 2: p2wpkh-p2sh
* 128 + 5: p2sh
* 128 + 6: p2wsh
* 128 + 7: p2wsh-p2sh
* A new version of the Electrum protocol is required by the client
(version 1.1). Servers using older versions of the protocol will
not be displayed in the GUI.