Bitcoin Dev Archive BIPs

BIP 32: Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets

Applications, Informational, Deployed. By Pieter Wuille. First discussed on the list 3 Dec 2012; 115 threads and 1,440 messages in all.

The BIP text BIP 32 (HD Wallets) in the glossary

The threads, in order

Listed by the date of each thread's first message.

2012 3 threads

3 Dec 2012
BIP 32 HD wallets, accounts should be labels not numbers Amir Taaki
4 messages
4 Dec 2012
Roadmap to getting users onto SPV clients Mike Hearn
19 messages
5 Dec 2012
String-based Hierarchical Deterministic Keys - Alternative to BIP 32 Mike Koss
4 messages

2013 13 threads

15 May 2013
RFC: c32d encoding Luke Dashjr
1 message
27 May 2013
BIP0032 Michael Gronager
6 messages
18 Jun 2013
Optional "wallet-linkable" address format - Payment Protocol Alan Reiner
25 messages
19 Jul 2013
Proposal: Base58 encoded HD Wallet master seed with optional encryption Jean-Paul Kogelman
28 messages
22 Jul 2013
Standard for private keys with birth timestamp Pieter Wuille
2 messages
14 Aug 2013
bitcoinj 0.10 Mike Hearn
1 message
16 Aug 2013
BIP 32.5 Greg Maxwell
5 messages
10 Sep 2013
BIP0039 Mnemonic code for generating deterministic keys slush
19 messages
17 Sep 2013
BIP32 (HD Wallets) implementation in Ruby Micah Winkelspecht
1 message
24 Oct 2013
Proposal to replace BIP0039 Thomas Voegtlin
24 messages
4 Nov 2013
Electrum version 1.9 Thomas Voegtlin
1 message
3 Dec 2013
Suggestion: easy way to restore wallet.dat backup Dâniel Fraga
2 messages
12 Dec 2013
Merge avoidance and P2P connection encryption Mike Hearn
9 messages

2014 17 threads

6 Jan 2014
Stealth Addresses Peter Todd
88 messages
16 Jan 2014
Bait for reusable addresses Greg Maxwell
14 messages
20 Jan 2014
BIP0039: Final call slush
17 messages
26 Jan 2014
BIP 32 proposed changes Pieter Wuille
1 message
1 Mar 2014
Making the H in HD keychains useful Eric Lombrozo
1 message
10 Mar 2014
Multisign payment protocol? Drak
35 messages
25 Mar 2014
Privacy-Protecting Proof of Reserves without the Moon-Math and without the backup angst Peter Todd
1 message
26 Mar 2014
New BIP32 structure Mike Hearn
100 messages
29 Mar 2014
Presenting a BIP for Shamir's Secret Sharing of Bitcoin private keys Matt Whitlock
90 messages
4 Apr 2014
Draft BIP for seamless website authentication using Bitcoin address Eric Larchevêque
27 messages
25 Apr 2014
BIP32 "wallet structure" in use? Remove it? Andreas Schildbach
12 messages
25 Apr 2014
New BIP32 structure for P2SH multisig wallets Manuel Araoz
18 messages
26 May 2014
Announce: Bitcoin.org Developer Documentation Now Live David A. Harding
1 message
8 Aug 2014
BIP32 - invalidation Pavol Rusnak
1 message
10 Aug 2014
BIP32 - invalidation second isogeny
2 messages
23 Sep 2014
Proposal: "No-Collision" mode for Multisig BIP32 Wallets Alan Reiner
4 messages
3 Oct 2014
bitcoinj 0.12 Mike Hearn
6 messages

2015 8 threads

22 Jan 2015
Securing wallet on paper U.Mutlu
2 messages
2 Feb 2015
Export format for xpub Levin Keller
18 messages
21 Feb 2015
Request for a new BIP number (and discussion): Improved HD wallet generation. 木ノ下じょな
8 messages
1 Mar 2015
Electrum 2.0 has been tagged Thomas Voegtlin
42 messages
13 Mar 2015
BIP32 Index Randomisation Matias Alejo Garcia
7 messages
12 Jun 2015
Bip 32 Question James Poole
2 messages
12 Jul 2015
Bitcoin Core 0.11.0 released Wladimir J. van der Laan
4 messages
14 Jul 2015
Proposal: extend bip70 with OpenAlias Justin Newton
19 messages

2016 10 threads

6 Mar 2016
BIP44 & BIP32 chain address look-ahead limits Jameson Lopp
1 message
20 Apr 2016
Proposal to update BIP-32 Jochen Hoenicke
9 messages
13 May 2016
Bip44 extension for P2SH/P2WSH/... Daniel Weigl
20 messages
20 Jun 2016
Even more proposed BIP extensions to BIP 0070 Erik Aronesty
39 messages
28 Jun 2016
BIP 151 use of HMAC_SHA512 Rusty Russell
59 messages
26 Jul 2016
BIP proposal: derived mnemonics millibitcoin
5 messages
8 Aug 2016
BIP Number Request: Addresses over Audio Daniel Hoffman
28 messages
15 Aug 2016
Bitcoin Knots 0.13.0.knots20160814 released Luke Dashjr
1 message
23 Aug 2016
Bitcoin Core 0.13.0 released Wladimir J. van der Laan
1 message
23 Aug 2016
BIP Status updates (including to Active/Final Status) - BIP 39, BIP 43, BIP 44, BIP 67, BIP 111, BIP 125, BIP 130 Luke Dashjr
15 messages

2017 8 threads

12 Apr 2017
BIP proposal draft: BIP43 "purpose" allocation for Ethereum Nick Johnson
2 messages
14 Aug 2017
BIP proposal, Pay to Contract BIP43 Application Omar Shibli
6 messages
5 Sep 2017
Proposal: bip32 version bytes for segwit scripts Thomas Voegtlin
10 messages
6 Sep 2017
Proposal: Extended serialization format for BIP-32 wallets Pavol Rusnak
15 messages
9 Sep 2017
Proposal: Extended serialization format for BIP-32 shiva sitamraju
3 messages
14 Sep 2017
Bitcoin Core 0.15.0 released Wladimir J. van der Laan
1 message
15 Sep 2017
Bitcoin Knots 0.15.0.knots20170914 released Luke Dashjr
1 message
2 Nov 2017
Electrum 3.0 release Thomas Voegtlin
1 message

2018 11 threads

5 Jan 2018
BIP 39: Add language identifier strings for wordlists nullius
18 messages
25 Apr 2018
Multi-signature and multi-coin HD wallet in one BIP32 derivation path (new BIP) Paul Brown
6 messages
29 May 2018
New serialization/encoding format for key material Jonas Schnelli
11 messages
15 Jun 2018
BIP 174 thoughts Pieter Wuille
55 messages
30 Aug 2018
bustapay BIP :: a practical sender/receiver coinjoin protocol rhavar
15 messages
20 Sep 2018
SLIP-0039: Shamir's Secret-Sharing for Mnemonic Codes Andrew Kozlik
6 messages
3 Oct 2018
Bitcoin Core 0.17.0 released Wladimir J. van der Laan
2 messages
6 Nov 2018
draft proposal: change forwarding (improved fungibility through wallet interoperability) Yuval Kogman
3 messages
6 Nov 2018
BIP- & SLIP-0039 -- better multi-language support Weiji Guo
8 messages
9 Nov 2018
bitcoin-dev Digest, Vol 42, Issue 4 Weiji Guo
1 message
21 Dec 2018
BIP39 seeds Aymeric Vitte
14 messages

2019 5 threads

26 Apr 2019
Adding xpub field to PSBT to make multisig more secure Stepan Snigirev
7 messages
12 Jul 2019
Discover and move your coins by yourself Aymeric Vitte
3 messages
1 Sep 2019
Draft BIP for SNICKER AdamISZ
10 messages
9 Oct 2019
Taproot updates Pieter Wuille
1 message
24 Dec 2019
: Universal Addresses Ty Everett
1 message

2020 6 threads

20 Mar 2020
RFC: Deterministic Entropy From BIP32 Keychains Ethan Kosakovsky
10 messages
24 Mar 2020
Mitigating Differential Power Analysis in BIP-340 Lloyd Fournier
3 messages
6 Apr 2020
Deterministic Entropy From BIP32 Keychains Rodolfo Novak
5 messages
3 Jun 2020
Bitcoin Core 0.20.0 released Wladimir J. van der Laan
1 message
2 Jul 2020
BIP draft: BIP32 Path Templates Dmitry Petukhov
6 messages
29 Sep 2020
Is BIP32's chain code needed? Leonardo Comandini
5 messages

2021 6 threads

5 Feb 2021
BIP32/43-based standard for Schnorr signatures & decentralized identity Dr Maxim Orlovsky
10 messages
8 Feb 2021
Proposal: Bitcoin Secure Multisig Setup Hugo Nguyen
37 messages
14 Mar 2021
Signature and Script Independent Hierarchy for Deterministic Wallets. Robert Spigler
9 messages
19 Mar 2021
An alternative to BIP 32? vjudeu
9 messages
20 Jul 2021
Multisig Enhanced Privacy Scheme Michael Flaxman
2 messages
13 Sep 2021
Bitcoin Core 22.0 released W. J. van der Laan
1 message

2022 3 threads

16 Jan 2022
BIP proposal: Pay-to-contract tweak fields for PSBT (bip-psbt-p2c) Dr Maxim Orlovsky
3 messages
5 Apr 2022
MuSig2 BIP Jonas Nick
15 messages
22 Sep 2022
RFC for a BIP32 recurrent address derivation scheme El_Hoy
3 messages

2023 4 threads

16 Feb 2023
Codex32 Russell O'Connor
15 messages
5 Jun 2023
BIP for Silent Payments josibake
1 message
3 Aug 2023
BIP352: Silent Payments josibake
1 message
10 Sep 2023
New BIP to align descriptors, xpub derivation and miniscript Dr Maxim Orlovsky
2 messages

2024 3 threads

28 May 2024
Pre-BIP feedback: Secrets keychain with semantic derivation Aneesh Karve
1 message
26 Jun 2024
BIP-85 Champion Unreachable? Please weigh in. Aneesh Karve
2 messages
4 Oct 2024
Bitcoin Core 28.0 Released Ava Chow
1 message

2025 7 threads

19 Feb 2025
P2QRH / BIP-360 Update Hunter Beast
19 messages
16 Mar 2025
Against Allowing Quantum Recovery of Bitcoin Jameson Lopp
43 messages
23 Jun 2025
Descriptors using H as a hardened indicator Ava Chow
1 message
22 Jul 2025
Revisiting secp256r1 signatures (i.e. P256, mobile HSM support) Josh Doman
5 messages
31 Aug 2025
Add BIP-0093 (Codex32) as application to BIP-0085 Ben Westgate
7 messages
1 Nov 2025
OP_CIV - Post-Quantum Signature Aggregation Tadge Dryja
5 messages
8 Dec 2025
Hash-Based Signatures for Bitcoin's Post-Quantum Future Mikhail Kudinov
17 messages

2026 11 threads

9 Feb 2026
Algorithm Agility for Bitcoin to maintain security in the face of quantum and classic breaks in the signature algorithms Ethan Heilman
45 messages
11 Feb 2026
Output Script Descriptor Annotations Craig Raw
1 message
28 Mar 2026
Post Quantum HD Wallets with fallback SPHINCS keys conduition
1 message
8 Apr 2026
Post-Quantum BIP-86 Recovery via zk-STARK Proof of BIP-32 Seed Knowledge Olaoluwa Osuntokun
18 messages
9 Apr 2026
In defense of a PQ output type Antoine Poinsot
36 messages
5 May 2026
The Bitcoin Lost and Found John Light
3 messages
19 May 2026
PQC: Lattice-based signatures Nikita Karetnikov
16 messages
3 Jun 2026
Aligning privacy incentives in P2MR conduition
20 messages
14 Jul 2026
Quantum Recovery Of Hashed Address Secured Coins With No Confiscatory Risk shinobimonkey
6 messages
20 Aug 2026
DropKick ⚽️ - A minimal commit/reveal PQ rescue protocol conduition
5 messages
1 Oct 2026
MHFE: memory-hard encryption of BIP39 backups into 24 words — request for review Sergei Semenov
1 message