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Board Hardware wallets
Re: [ESHOP launched] Trezor: Bitcoin hardware wallet
by
Carlton Banks
on 04/06/2015, 10:10:47 UTC
mytrezor.com wallet sends xpub to server to retrieve transaction history. However Chrome extension does the device management without revealing any information to our servers. It is completely standalone application, so it does not even reveal your IP to us.

and just to be clear i understand the terms, xpub means "master public key", correct?

thanks for clarifying.

The master public key for the account, not the entire tree of accounts.

I think the terminology used in BIP 32 was:

  • xpub means extended public key, and generates all public keys for a single private key (i.e. single Trezor account)
  • a master public key generates all xpubs for a single seed

I don't know how closely everyone follows the same terminology, but you'd think it would be pretty faithful seeing as slush and I think also stick talk on the developers mailing list about this wallet related stuff.