My understanding is that 12th word is a checksum… so why are following mnemonics both valid?
gather video album produce report surge grant buzz buzz jaguar modify occur
gather video album produce report surge grant buzz buzz jaguar modify surge
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Sign up to join this community12-word BIP39 phases only have a 4-bit checksum. In other words, 8 bits of the last word are still "data".
occur
and surge
considered valid checksums for preceding 11 words?
Aug 27, 2022 at 13:31