Re: BYTEBALL: Totally new consensus algorithm + private untraceable payments

what about HD wallets that generate unique addresses each time a spend is made and you have funds scattered around many addresses?

You can either move your complete balance to one linked address or you can sign a message for all addresses, one after the other. Sounds like a lot of work with signing but actually it could be faster because you don't have to wait for slow bitcoin confirmations!

message signing is still hard or not yet possible natively with hardware wallets. so there's only the option of moving all funds to the one address.

Here's a good list of wallets which supports signing: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=990345.0

This is a tutorial about linking with a trezor: https://medium.com/byteball-help/tutorial-on-linking-trezor-wallet-to-byteball-account-via-signing-a-message-b4e390d7e1a8#.e9iy0wwzw

fyi for those interested you can sign messages with your ledger nano s wallet as well. you need to plug your xpub key into https://iancoleman.github.io/bip39/ to get the path derivation that matches the btc address you want to sign the message with. getting access to the xpub and signing the message are both accessible from the chrome app. this is how i'm linking my btc address this time around instead of sending funds like the first time i participated last round.