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[trivial] Fix link to considerations #665

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Expand Up @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ It allows the user to use different HD wallets with the same masterseed and/or a
Thus the user needs to create dedicated segregated witness accounts, which ensures that only wallets compatible with this BIP
will detect the accounts and handle them appropriately.

===Considerations===
==Considerations==
Two generally different approaches are possible for current BIP44 capable wallets:

1) Allow the user to use the same account(s) that they already uses, but add segregated witness encoded addresses to it.
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m / purpose' / coin_type' / account' / change / address_index
</pre>

For the `purpose`-path level it uses `49'`. The rest of the levels are used as defined in BIP44.
For the <code>purpose</code>-path level it uses <code>49'</code>. The rest of the levels are used as defined in BIP44.


===Address derivation===
Expand All @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ To derive the P2SH address from the above calculated public key, we use the enca

==Backwards Compatibility==

This BIP is not backwards compatible by design as described under [#considerations]. An incompatible wallet will not discover accounts at all and the user will notice that something is wrong.
This BIP is not backwards compatible by design as described under [[bip-0049.mediawiki#considerations|considerations]]. An incompatible wallet will not discover accounts at all and the user will notice that something is wrong.


==Test vectors==
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