Default account clarifications

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Default account clarifications #681

Open nuke-web3 opened 2 years ago

nuke-web3 commented 2 years ago

New features (not yet ready) to bring up in docs when merged. https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/10403 https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/10413 && https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/pull/4500 https://github.com/paritytech/cumulus/pull/842

shawntabrizi commented 2 years ago

To be placed in the "dropbox" section of the docs.

covers:

known private key for 0 address, specifically for sr25519/ed25519 (doesnt apply to ethereum or some of the other ones)
warning not to use that address
leads to no default implementaiton for address, and how to simply work around it with .unwrap_or([1u8; 32].into())