Questions tagged [bip-32-hd-wallets]
BIP32, or Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets. https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawiki
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How does BIP 39 mnemonic work?
As I already understood the mnemonics are the private key separated in 12 words which joined together in the very same order produces the private key.
How are mnemonics generated?
Why Ledger ...
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Does Electrum reveal a wallets public key to Electrum Servers?
When Electrum Bitcoin wallet queries a random Electrum Server does it send the public key to the server or does it send a batch of addresses to check?
For instance, after setting up Electrum Personal ...
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Which BIP describes the structure and algorithm for creating a wallet file?
My app is able to create a public and private key from BIP39. The uncompressed private key is concatenated with a sha256 (private key) and then encrypted via AES and saved to a file. To decrypt, you ...
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Hardened address generation with BIP44 watch-only wallet with xpub
I am puzzled by the hardened key derivation from a watch-only BIP44 wallet.
Let me first explain what I am trying to do.
I am implementing a 2-of-3 multisig scheme
I am using Bcoin node and wallet
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How to send & receive bitcoin using bitcoinjs-lib?
First I create HD Wallet using BIP32 using mnemonics.
Now I want to generate new child addresses with private key using xpub & xpriv for every receive.
Then for example, I received BTC in 2 ...
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Bip32 bitcoin core wallet `hdseed` format from xprv master key
I'm trying to use a mnemonic seed to generate a bitcoin-core wallet. I know core does not support bip39, but it does support bip32 and sethdseed should make it possible to use the seed generated by a ...
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Linking Bitcoin addresses based on a private key - is that possible
I have seen a claim as follows:
[We] apply algorithms to detect which bitcoin addresses are sharing the same private keys. In most cases, this leads to a high-level assertion of certain addresses ...
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How to create generate addresses for multiple crypto currencies
I am trying to understand how to generate addresses from 1 mnemonic for multiple cryptocurrencies.
I needed a read-only wallet, so I guess I need to use an xpub key. But I am struggling to ...
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Bitcoin address generation and UTXO scanning
I'm developing bitcoin payment processing application.
I've two question to ask:
In each bip32 address, How much UTXO each address should have to consider generating new address to avoid address re-...
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How to validate derivePath for HDWallet?
I am generating addresses for HDWallet while importing account using the
Mnemonic Phrase. So I am letting the user enter Mnemonic Phrase and derivePath both. Before generating addresses, I want to ...
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Does Bitcoin Core still use “Bitcoin seed” in addition to a seed like stated in BIP 32?
In BIP 32 it's stated that a Master Private key is generated by hashing the concatenation of a random seed and the string "Bitcoin seed". And is like so in the example implementations.
But I couldn't ...
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Calculating the HD Wallet Balance [duplicate]
While the notion of a balance is not strictly correct in the context of a wallet, it is something that has presented some confusion for me in the context of an HD wallet, especially when importing a ...
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Hardened Keys vs Normal Keys - A Simpler Explanation
I'm trying to better understand hardened keys and normal keys and how the former protects the rest of and HD wallet.
Following on from the answer provided here: ELI5: What's the difference ...
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HSM for Hierarchical Deterministic Wallet
I'd like to use a small HSM to manage an HD Bitcoin wallet (BIP32). The HSM does have to correct ECDSA curve, secp256k1, can generate keypair, and sign.
My challenge comes from the HD part. In ...
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Why seed from BIP39 mnemonic phrase is much longer than entropy?
BIP39 converts mnemonic
"zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo wrong"
to the fairly long seed
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how to find my btc address and private key using bip32 rootkey
I have one query
Using my bip32 rootkey
I can see all address
I've 250$ into my wallet but when i important the address from my rootkey it's showing only address which i received payment of last 150$...
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undefined is not an object error when adding BIP39 to React Native
I have a React Native Project and it was worked correctly till I added bip39 package to the project. when i try to require bip39 in my component i get the below error.
undefined is not an object (...
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Calculate mnemonic code from terminal
I want to replicate mnemonic code with terminal.
the steps are:
Create a random sequence (entropy) of 128 to 256 bits.
Create a checksum of the random sequence by taking the first (entropy- length/32)...
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Cannot read property 'toWIF' of undefined
I am working on a cryptocurrency site in which each user will have there own individual deposit address to put currency on site. I am using bitcoin-core, bitcoinjs-lib, along with quite a few other ...
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Why the normal mode exist in BIP32
Suppose the BIP32 normal deviation is not safe enough.
Suppose the xpub is deployed on the server, we assume it is public, then the leak of any derived private key is the leak of the parent private ...
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How many rounds of HMAC-SHA256 needed to generate the master key in BIP32
In the BIP32, it does not define the round of HMAC-SHA256.
In http://bip32.org/, it use 50,000 rounds.
In "mastering Bitcoin", it use 2048 rounds.
Is there any explicit standard, or what we ...
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Python library for Multisignature HD wallets
Is there is any python library is available that allow creation of Multisignature HD wallets ?
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Should Account-level in BIP32/BIP44 be Hardened?
Let's say we have an ETH trading exchange where we employ BIP32/BIP44 to generate a unique wallet address for each user. For simplicity, each user uses the same wallet address
(unique to each user) ...
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A couple of questions on Schnorr sig
In the BIP by Pieter Wuille it is told that the key prefixed version of Schnorr signature is needed when the scheme is used in combination with BIP32's unhardened derivation. Could someone provide an ...
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What is the advantage of HD Wallets?
I have read man resources and questions about HD Wallets. As pointed out in this question on SO, it won't be possible to send funds of a derived child address using the master private key.
In my ...
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Possible attack vector of BIP32 HD wallet
I've been reading about BIP32 HD wallet and it's implementation and came across a few questions regarding the possible known "attack" vector of leaked private child keys and known xpub parent key ...
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General private/public key generation
Not sure if this is the correct forum to ask, but I couldn't find a general one for all cryptocurrencies
I wanted to get an idea on how the whole cold-storage private/public key generation works for ...
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Can I recreate the xpub key if I have multiple public addresses with their corresponding private keys?
Is it possible to recreate the xpub key if I have multiple public addresses with their corresponding private keys? All the keys were created from the same HD wallet.
I was hodling and watching my ...
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Is there a list of coins that are bip-32 compatible?
BIP 32 allows me to derive keys based off a root key pair, and all these keys will be on the secp256k1 curve. That means I'll be able to use BIP 32 for other coins that are also based on your curve.
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BIP-32 - how can parent extended public key exposed parent extended private key?
The below is the snippet from bip-32. I do not understand under what circumstance would 'parent extended public key' be exposed? In the case of e-commerce a 'child extended public key' is derived from ...
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Is auditing a BIP32 tree only possible if it is non-hardened?
BIP 32 allows you to to implement the auditor use case:
Audits: N(m/*) In case an auditor needs full access to the list of
incoming and outgoing payments, one can share all account public
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What are segwit extended key prefix bytes for regtest?
I need the HD version bytes for equivalent of ypub, zpub, Ypub, Zpub but on the regtest network.
I also need Ypub on testnet.
All the rest I can find in slip132, but it is incomplete.
thanks.
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BIP 32 child key derivation “stops working” after a certain index (i)
Here's my code to get a child public key from a parent HD key. I adapted it from freedomnode:
public function address_from_master_pub($path = '0/0') {
if ($this->xpub === NULL && $...
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Golang how to derive address from bip32's xpubkey?
i'm trying to derive HD address of bitcoin using Golang. I have extended private/public key. The problem is i'm unable to find any library in Golang that can generate/derive address from the xpubkey/...
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Access custom BIP32 paths on trezor
So I really have 2 problems now:
I took xpub address for Dash from trezor and used it with blockcypher API to generate addresses with paths like m/0, m/1, etc
I sent some money to that addresses and ...
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Lightning Network: are all keys pre-generated in the base row of the merkle tree?
From the whitepaper, page 41:
Keys are generated in a merkle tree and are very deep within the tree.
For instance, Alice pre-generates one million keys, each key being a
child of the previous ...
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How to generate public and private key pairs from the 12 seed words in python
I basically followed the instructions here How to generate mycelium addresses from the 12 words in python
So my code is similar:
from bip32utils import BIP32Key
from bip32utils import BIP32_HARDEN
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How are bip44 coin identifiers assigned?
There is a list of bip44 identifiers for altcoins here.
It uses the term registered coin types. My question is, is there anything in code for each coin that the bip44 number is derived from, or this ...
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HD Wallets Difference between a CKDpub and CKDpriv from the path notation
I' m still trying to grasp the conventions used in HD wallets, so I have a couple of questions:
What's the difference between CKDpub and CKDpriv from the path notation.
What I know is the path just ...
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HD Wallet Child Private Key Derivation Function
I was trying to understand the specs on CKD function from both the bip32 standard and Mastering Bitcoin book, I couldn't understand how a private key is derived from the left side of the extended key.
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In HD Wallet recovery how does the wallets know which addresses to recover
I have been reading the BIP32 proposal explaining how HD works but it didn't mention on any point how one wallet in one phone can recover from a simple mnemonic seed.
Does it just try all possible ...
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Custom derivation path
Instead of using bip32 or bip44 paths what if I use a custom derivation path,
For example: m/0/0/55/1/1/0
I am thinking even if the private key is exposed then can someone guess the derivation path ?...
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How to generate a Litecoin testnet addresses (Segwit also) (Derivation path, bip32)
I'm creating a wallet that generates address for litecoin mainnet in two ways.
One is using bitcoinjs-lib. This library has an object with all the data need it to create private keys and address:
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How to get private key from 12-word backup and public key? [duplicate]
It turned out, to one 12-word backup, billion address could belong. It is not always sure app like Copay found all the address contains money.
Is it a way to infer the private key from 12-word ...
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BIP32 Neutered function
Can the following be clarified, where I am wrong:
The Xpriv can derive a hardened xpriv.
It can also derive a non hardened xpriv, which we will use with the neutered function to make it an xpub.
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If Two Cryptocurrencies use different curves, Can They be in the same HD Wallet?
I was looking through some code for HD Wallets and I saw that they used curve param.N which is specific for whichever curve is used.
Does this mean that when using HD Wallets to derive Private keys, ...
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BIP44 external and internal accounts
Below I may be a bit verbose, so that if my understanding is wrong, it will be glaringly obvious.
Consider two external accounts:
The external accounts are used to receive bitcoin. When we search ...
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What does 44' mean in BIP44?
After reading BIP44, I saw
Purpose is a constant set to 44' (or 0x8000002C) following the BIP43
recommendation.
I believe 0x8000002C is 128 as an integer, how does this equate to 44' however?
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bitcoinTestnet Network returning a mainnet address
I'm using this code to get a new address from an extended public key:
$index = 97;
$change = false;
$key = HierarchicalKeyFactory::fromExtended($tpubaddress, NetworkFactory::...
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How Do HD Wallets Keep Track of all accounts?
If a HD Wallet generates 1,000 accounts for example.
How would they keep track of all of the account's balances, if someone for example, paid into the 455th account, they would want to update the ...
