multi-wallet

Identifiable wallet

install

npm

npm i multi-wallet --save

yarn

yarn add multi-wallet

usage

import MultiWallet from 'multi-wallet';
 
const multi = new MultiWallet(<network>, <BIP32>).load(<bs58>);
const account = multi.account(0);
const external = account.external(0); // first external address
 
const internal = account.internal(0); // first internal address (used to receive change)
 
const signature = external.sign(<data>, <key>) // returns base58 encoded MultiSignature
const address = external.address // returns bs58check encoded address (without privateKey)
 
const multi2 = new MultiWallet(<network>, <BIP32>).fromAddress(address);
 
 
multi2.verify(signature, data); // returns boolean
 
// base58 encoded string
const exported = multi.export() // or multi.save() returns wif
 
// import from exported
multi.import(exported) // import wif
 

use case

Future proof cryptocurrency wallet (wallets are versioned & each version should be supported as long as possible (with exceptions)). In short:

• disables the need for a "fork" when changing wallet behaviour (no drop in computing power).
• nodes that aren't updated can (at least for some time) contribute to the network by handling other not updated node transactions.
• updated nodes can still handle older nodes their transactions (until some point in time or whenever an vulnerability is found.)
• flag vulnerable versions by sending a flag Message (flags are send to every node & accepted only when 3/4 off total nodes agree, this results into an lockdown off the flagged node, all other nodes will ignore it until the flagged one has updated to the needed version).

API

TODO...

LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2019 vandeurenglenn