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2018-06-21 meeting: add some additional content
- Describe implications of loadwallet not automatically persisting across restarts - Add extended pubkeys to list of key material bech32x is being designed for Both suggested by John Newbery. Thanks!
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**Discussion ([log][log multiwallet persistence]):** Jonas Schnelli
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requested and introduced the topic, "I guess it's not ideal that loaded
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wallets need to be re-loaded after a Bitcoin Core restart---especially
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in pruning mode."
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in pruning mode." That is, a user who creates or loads a wallet and
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then restarts Bitcoin Core without changing the configuration file will
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have to rescan the latest parts of the block chain the next time they do
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load that wallet. Worse, if some of the blocks the rescan needs have
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been pruned, the user will be unable to use the wallet.
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Several meeting participants suggested that this is what the
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writable Bitcoin config file (rwconf) is being developed for. See PR
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**Background:** several Bitcoin Core contributors have been working to
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create a new serialization format for backing up and recovering Bitcoin
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private keys, HD-wallet seeds, and HD-wallet extended private keys. The
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private keys, HD-wallet seeds, HD-wallet extended private keys, and
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HD-wallet extended public keys. The
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primary goal is to replace the current popular standards of base58check
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and BIP39 with a new standard that not only detects errors but can also
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automatically correct several of those errors for the user. Current

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