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Consider moving 'netcodes' to 2-4 letter ISO-like codes #29

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doc-hex opened this issue May 5, 2014 · 2 comments
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Consider moving 'netcodes' to 2-4 letter ISO-like codes #29

doc-hex opened this issue May 5, 2014 · 2 comments

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doc-hex commented May 5, 2014

With over 290 altcoins in the wild, a single-letter "netcode" is technically insufficient. It's also hard to remember in my opinion. I suggest moving to short multi-letter codes for each network, in the style of ISO currency codes.

BTC - Bitcoin
LTC - Litecoin
XTN - Bitcoin Testnet3

... and so on. Each of the altcoins has a established code which is used on the exchanges. Most are 3 letters, but there are 2 and 4 letter ones as well.

I can submit a pull for this change, if you wish, but I would be tempted to rework the internals of networks.py at the same time.
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I agree that this is a good idea.

@doc-hex doc-hex mentioned this issue May 6, 2014
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Netcode-related changes merged.

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