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Board Bitcoin Wallet for Android
Re: If I backup the wallet, how many future addresses are backed up?
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on 02/06/2014, 02:43:16 UTC
Currently, it only backs up the addresses you have already created.

In future, it will have BIP32 deterministic wallets. You only need to backup the once, immediately after starting the app for the first time.


That's a shame. I don't like reusing addresses (I.E. change back to the same address, or, multiple payments) for the sake of it being hard for me to manage what payments are what (One address/payment is a lot easier), so, this wallet is unusable for me at it's current state. Hopefully when you come out with this feature it'll be usable. Is there at ETA (Time/version)? Or, is it just in limbo currently?

The project is open source and free software. You could have coded the feature already 3 years ago. Heck, you could even have submitted a patch by now! Why didn't you do?


I... I... I don't know. Why didn't I? Hold up just one second, this is your project, stop making me feel guilty!

Probably because by the time I got a Java IDE up and running, got familiar with your code, researched how BIP32 works, implemented into the code that's not a complete hack, and, had everything running nicely, someone else would have beaten me to the punch... and I'm relatively lazy. I'm sorry :'(