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At the moment the CLI uses the term “account” for two things.
First, for accounts on the block chain. A blockchain account is a balance and a nonce identified by a public key and the account can be controlled by the corresponding private key. The user interacts with these accounts through account show and account transfer
Second, we us “account” for key pairs stored locally on disk. These key pairs are identified by a name. The user interacts with them through account generate and account list.
@cloudhead is suggesting to use the term “key pair” for accounts stored on disk. This would mean we replace the respective account commands with key-pair generate and key-pair list.
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@cloudhead is suggesting to use the term “key pair” for accounts stored on disk. This would mean we replace the respective account commands with key-pair generate and key-pair list.
Sounds good to me. Considering #413, we would have the following under the key-pair group, which is rather sound:
NunoAlexandre
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Differentiate between “local” accounts and on-chain accounts in terminology
cli: Differentiate between “local” accounts and on-chain accounts in terminology
May 1, 2020
At the moment the CLI uses the term “account” for two things.
First, for accounts on the block chain. A blockchain account is a balance and a nonce identified by a public key and the account can be controlled by the corresponding private key. The user interacts with these accounts through
account show
andaccount transfer
Second, we us “account” for key pairs stored locally on disk. These key pairs are identified by a name. The user interacts with them through
account generate
andaccount list
.Mixing the terminology leads to user confusion.
@cloudhead is suggesting to use the term “key pair” for accounts stored on disk. This would mean we replace the respective account commands with
key-pair generate
andkey-pair list
.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: