- Briefly mention segwit and the need for new addresses. Mention that
getting wallets to a new base58check version would probably be only a
little less work than upgrading to an entirely new address format.
Describe the problems with base58check and the solutions provide by
bech32. Illustrate some of the problems and solutions.
- Describe the bech32 length extension issue and provide an example.
- Introduce bech32m as the solution to the lengith extension issue.
- Provide examples using the bech32m reference library for Python for
encoding and decoding a bech32m address (mentioning the backwards
compatibility with bech32 addresses).
- Ask wallet authors to ensure they support forward compatibility with
future segwit versions.
David A. Harding