From 5af62cba9958a519218bcad8a0aae9e2090bb5bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pythcoiner Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:15:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] bip138: address review --- bip-0138.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/bip-0138.md b/bip-0138.md index e4482b04..98a77019 100644 --- a/bip-0138.md +++ b/bip-0138.md @@ -558,9 +558,9 @@ Implementations SHOULD encode and decode the backup using Base64 (RFC 4648).[^ps ### File Extension -Backups saved to a file SHOULD use the `.bip138` file extension, whether the file -contains the raw binary encoding or its Base64 text representation. A Base64 backup -MAY instead use the `.txt` extension. +Backups saved to a file SHOULD use the `.bip138` file extension for the raw binary +encoding and the `.txt` extension for the Base64 text representation, so that the +extension tells implementations which encoding to expect. ## Rationale