Add support of Watch only account about bitcoincore.swift HOT 9 CLOSED

Tested on this piece of code.
For zprv (bip84) - it's downloading transactions, but not recognising old transactions (history for such wallet is empty)
For xprv (bip32) - it doesn't download transactions at all.

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Same seedData used to initialise bitcoinKit works as expected

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All tested on .testNet .newWallet

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hey @ArtemZinkov ,

.newWallet is considered to sync transactions only after the last checkpoint block. It assumes that the wallet is new and it has no transactions. You can check with ".api" or ".full" to sync historical transactions.

full // Sync from bip44Checkpoint. Api restore disabled
api // Sync from lastCheckpoint. Api restore enabled
newWallet // Sync from lastCheckpoint. Api restore enabled

lastCheckpoint is the last block of the last difficulty adjustment and it's updated before each release of the app.

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Tested on this piece of code. For zprv (bip84) - it's downloading transactions, but not recognising old transactions (history for such wallet is empty) For xprv (bip32) - it doesn't download transactions at all.

As of watch accounts, we only support account derivations which have "m/purpose'/coin_type'/account'" derivations. You can get an account Public extended key as following:

let keychain = HDKeychain(privateKey: rootKey) // rootKey is an instance of HDPrivateKey
let publicKey = try! keychain.derivedKey(path: "m/84'/0'/0'").publicKey()
let extendedKey = HDExtendedKey.public(key: publicKey)

bip32 derivations are the generic name of all HD wallets and it may be custom for each type of wallets.

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Hello @esen thank you for answering!

I tried to generate pubKey the way you mentioned, but for some reason - old transactions was still not recognised as "ours"

BUT if i init wallet with Seed - it fetches and see transactions properly

For more context - i still use .newWallet, due to it's testNet, transactions in it is quite recent and they're shown in history, for seed initialisation.
I clear Tx (BitcoinKit.Kit.clear()) every time when i change init version (with seed, or derived pubKey), to replicate initial launch.

Sorry if i missing some important detail, please ask if more context is required here

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Hello @esen i would really appreciate any help or suggestion here, due to i faced road block here and not sure where to move forward, to enable watch only mode for wallets.

i also checked syncMode == .full, and still had no history for watch only mode, while bitcoinKit with seedData initialiser was capable to see old transactions for wallet i used

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UPDATE:

Found what was the issue!
Derived path ("m/84'/0'/0'") you provided - consists of:
Purpose - 84
coinType - 0 (bitcoin)
chain - 0

I was testing this all on testNet, thus coinType should be 1 as mentioned here

i changed derivation path from "m/84'/0'/0'" to "m/84'/1'/0'" and it worked!
Thanks!!

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I would suggest to add this as a check to compare with networkType, during initialisation of bitcoinKit

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