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Four documents, the same five questions.
No throughput league table and no yield. The cells are what this library is willing to say about the text.
| Question | Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets |
|---|---|
| What the text proposes | A master secret derives a tree of child keys. A parent public key can derive child public keys on non-hardened paths, so a server can issue addresses without the private key. |
| Who may write | Pieter Wuille |
| What is settled | One seed is the backup. |
| Load-bearing assumption | BIP 32 is not BIP 39. The mnemonic is separate. |
| What this library says afterwards | A reading of the public document. Not a copy of it, and not a claim about a later network that reused the name. |
| Rights | Official external source only |