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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] [RFC] Proposal: Base58 encoded HD Wallet
 master seed with optional encryption
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On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Jean-Paul Kogelman
<jeanpaulkogelman@me.com> wrote:
>
> I added a 2 byte 'weeks since 2013-01-01' field and updated the prefixes,
> ranges and test vectors.
>
> The updated proposal lives here:
> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=258678

Greetings.  Any recent progress on this?

Do we believe this proposal can replace BIP38?  If not, what are the
limitations that would prevent it from doing so?