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Re: Wallet Label Export Format: A Proposal by Craig Raw
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n0nce
on 25/08/2022, 15:01:15 UTC
Yesterday this message came to the mailing list: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-August/020887.html

It's a BIP from Craig Raw of Sparrow Wallet that specifies a human readable export format for wallet labels (in CSV), and how users should write such files so they can be imported into wallets. It has received some discussion already.

IMO the draft needs some refining. What do you guys think?
The idea sounds great to me! It's actually something I'd thought about a lot in the past, when switching applications.
Some wallets do allow to export this information, but it's only really useful for importing into the same wallet on a new / other machine.

I think I've manually 'translated' one application's format into another one's once, but a standard would be really great. If the application prefers to have something more complex with more information, it can still use that but offer a 'default format export' option that generates this 2-column version from their own internal data representation.