Downgrading from compressed keys #856

issue sipa opened this issue on February 17, 2012

sipa commented at 2:48 PM on February 17, 2012: member
When starting an older bitcoin version after using 0.6:
- if the wallet is not encrypted, it will use the non-compressed variants of the keys, eventually diverging
- if the wallet is encrypted, decrypting it will cause a "wrong password" warning
Solution: write minversion in the wallet
TheBlueMatt commented at 7:40 AM on February 18, 2012: contributor

Dont forget to write a CCorruptAddress every time minversion is written to to ensure clients that dont know about minversion ignore die when trying to load the wallet.
sipa cross-referenced this on Feb 18, 2012 from issue Make compressed pubkeys require client >=0.5.99 by sipa
sipa commented at 10:59 PM on February 21, 2012: member

#864 merged
sipa closed this on Feb 21, 2012
destenson referenced this in commit 839ae4ba17 on Jun 26, 2016
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