Questions tagged [mnemonic-seed]
Mostly BIP39, an open standard for encoding a seed as a series of common words, but also collects other methodologies.
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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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Automate Bip39 seed recovery
I recently was locked out of my Ledger NanoS when I forgot the pin code. Upon trying to reset from my recovery phrase I realized that I only have 23 of the 24 required words (not sure how it happened ...
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The One Thing That’s Stopping Me From Accessing My Crypto Wallet (Hint: It’s Not the Seed Phrase)
Requirement: Recover crypto
What I possess: I have a 12 word seed phrase, (Though I am not exactly sure of the organization that generated it).
I have the public address through which (blockchain.com ...
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Recovering 2 of 2 multisig HD Wallet with bip38 encrypted private key
I have been trying to figure out if it is possible to restore my wallet with the current information I have.
The wallet is a 2 of 2 multisignature HD wallet
The first key is Bip38 and requires a ...
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Is the checksum used in BIP39 mnemonic sentences too short?
In the BIP39 specification, you add 1 bit of checksum for every 32 bits of entropy you generate.
Therefore, with a common entropy size of 128 bits, you are only adding 4 bits of checksum. This means ...
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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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Generate private key from a bip-39 seed phrase?
I'm able to generate a new private key and associated public addresses using bitcoin-core, but what I really want to do is generate a new private key from a 24 word seed phrase. I'm not sure how to go ...
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12 or 24 words for menomonic?
I do not have reference, but I have heard that there is no use in using more than 12 word for mnemonic, because ECDSA secp256k1 only have 128 bit strength.
Is this correct ?
If it is, does then ...
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BIP39 security: 24 words vs. 12 words + 12 word passphrase
Does using a 12 word BIP39 mnemonic phrase in combination with another 12 word BIP39 mnemonic phrase used as an additional passphrase provide the same security as a 24 word mnemonic phrase without ...
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How many words are enough to confirm user backed up all words for seed phrase?
If there are 12 words in the seed phrase, is confirming random 3 words enough to ensure user has backed up all words?
Or is it necessary to confirm all words and in the correct order?
If I create a ...
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How to properly compute the BIP39 checksum bytes?
I'm trying to understand the logic of generating a valid BIP-39 seed phrase. I have read the BIP-39 and trying to implement the section Generating the mnemonic step by step. I have the following ...
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Should I use one `hsm_secret` for both the mainnet and the testnet?
When I launch lightningd it generates hsm_secret in ~/.lightning/bitcoin
whereas launching lightningd with network=testnet generates hsm_secret in ~/.lightning/testnet.
These two files seem to be ...
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Storing entire seed from bip39 mnemonic using WIF
I'm using the bitcoinjs collection of libraries, specifically https://github.com/bitcoinjs/wif, https://github.com/bitcoinjs/bip32 and https://github.com/bitcoinjs/bip39 with nodejs.
I have a mnemonic ...
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Is this mnemonic cryptography flawed?
Recently I setup a crypto wallet which used a 12-word BIP39 passphrase as security. I noticed something peculiar when I went to setup an additional wallet. The first and last words of the previous ...
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Why bother with 'account' in derivation path?
After lots of wallet testing, I'm thinking that only account level 0 should be used. Especially, when you consider restoring a wallet from the seed phrase.
m / purpose' / coin_type' / account' / ...
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How to confirm integrity of Electrum wallet created using BIP39 mnemonic?
Given paper backup of 24-word BIP39 mnemonic and passphrase, how can one confirm integrity of Electrum wallet given "Wallet" / "Seed" is greyed out?
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Generating HD wallet seed phrase
got a new hardware wallet and thinking of using my own set of bip39 words instead of wallet generated one, combined with a passphrase.
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HD Wallets, XPUB and child private key leaks
So some generalisations on xpubs and current wallet providers.
Ledger and Trezor wallets can create xpubs which can show all transactions of a wallet
When a passphrase is added, this counts as a new ...
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How to access a wallet in bitcoin core using raw key export from edge wallet?
I have a wallet in the Edge Wallet app. When I view "Raw Keys", I see this json:
{
"format": "bip49 ",
"bitcoinKey": <seed phrase>,
"coinType": ...
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Reusing bitcoin hw wallet infrastructure as a PGP replacement?
A lot of people who own Bitcoin are already know how to securely generate, store and use their BIP32 + BIP39 wallets, and own hardware wallets.
Are there any existing projects/standards trying to bolt ...
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Manual work as source of entropy
Working on an opensource air-gapped crypto vault, in which I have the regular method of relying on OS to provide cryptographically secure random source and use that to generate the mnemonic phrase.
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18 word mnemonic seed that contains words outside of BIP39 wordlist, struggling to recover BTC
I recently recovered a document containing information relating to some BTC I purchased in 2015. I only have: a passphrase/password, an 18 word mnemonic phrase(the majority of which are not in the ...
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Can you use the same seed for normal BTC and Lightning wallets?
If I generated 24 words from a Ledger Nano, can I import these to a lightning network wallet e.g. Eclair?
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How do I extract get money off a local wallet with only the key words?
I am a bit new to BitCoin and as it happened, I just transfered some money into my wallet when I noticed that my client (MultiBit HD) won't let me log into it anymore. Apparently it's a thing since ...
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In the BIP39 specification, are seeds generated from encoded or decoded passphrase?
From the BIP39 spec:
From mnemonic to seed
A user may decide to protect their mnemonic with a passphrase. If a passphrase is not present, an empty string "" is used instead.
To create a ...
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What files/code should I look for iOS Coinbase Wallet Seed Phrase?
I never wrote down my seed phrase for Coinbase wallet and used FaceId to Login for months. One day the app did an update which forced me off the app and prompted me for the seed phrase to login.
I ...
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Import the seed phrases generated in Electrum
To which wallets can I import the seed phrases generated in Electrum?
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I can't find 3 words out of my 12 words recovery phrase that i saved. I hear i need to run a script I just need guidelines as a newbie on how to do it
So i can't find 3 words out of my 12 words recovery phrase that i saved. I just don't know how to go about the whole script thing. Really hoping someone could guide me step by step on it.
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How are crypto wallets derived? Specifically the BIP32 Root key
I realize this is a very broad question. I'm not getting helpful resources from anywhere. White papers don't really explain the code, YouTube videos are vague or abstract, demonstration sites don't ...
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What is the first Deterministic BIP39 Wallet released?
I'm studying the BIP39 and the seed phrase.
I can read this doc (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0039) and I can find Created: 2013-09-10.
In bitcoin talk I can read this article (https://bitcointalk....
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Found 2015 seed phrase - NOT bip32 or common format! Cant open it!
Found lost seed phrase from 2015 behind picture frame... Actually two of them. BUT I have no idea what wallet it goes to. 12 word phrase. The words are not recognized as part of the bip32 word set. ...
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What are all the actions that can be performed with a seed phrase
I am asking this question because someone (malicious) else has access to a seed phrase I created and transacted for the first time. So the wallet is active in the blockchain.
Currently the seed ...
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What is a safe amount of characters in a passphrase?
The coldcard and trezor both has support for a passphrase. What amount of characters in this passphrase that would be considered unbreakable with current technology and within some years of ...
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I have a BIP39 seed but I cannot successfully recover the wallet on Electrum
Saw a photo of a screenshot I took and uploaded to Facebook 8 years ago, the address in the picture was this https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/19ScMXCyxoL1igxuw2LqRCtfdZb5WdQGJC and turns out ...
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Best way to store private key from address
I make my own hot-wallet and wanted to know best way to store private key from address, because I need it for signing transactions.
I tried store private key in my bitcoin core node, but I realized ...
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HD wallet root seed length
Mastering Bitcoin describes the process of generating the HD wallet seed:
"1. Create a random sequence (entropy) of 128 to 256 bits."
... 6. The mnemonic code is the sequence of words.
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How to generate BIP85 Child Key using Bitcoin Explorer?
I've playing with 2 tools:
Mnemonic Code Converter (site)
Bitcoin Explorer (CLI) - bx command
For the purpose of test I've used these tree BIP39 mnemonic words: client mixed great.
Using a site I've ...
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Does 12 word Mnemonic seed + passphrase wallet get recovered w/o the passphrase?
I recently bought an Ellipal Titan, I was playing around with it to get used to the wallet.
I created a wallet with 12 mnemonic + passphrase.
I erased the wallet.
I tried to recover the wallet with ...
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how to decode cryptocurrency wallet with mnemonic phrases
I want to create multi-coin wallet on Golang language and I faced with issue about how decode wallet with mnemonic phrases.
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Obtaining private key from mnemonic keywords
A customer of us can't remember which wallet he has used before (in 2014), but he still knows his public wallet address and als the 12 words for recovery.
We have a choice of 3 different wallets which ...
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Which app generates stronger mnemonic seed?
Mnemonic phrase, mnemonic seed, or seed phrase are defined as a secret group of words that represent a wallet. When used in sequence they allow access to the cryptocurrencies stored within.
“Mnemonic” ...
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How many bytes of entropy are recommended for seeding a mnemonic phrase?
If I wanted to generate a 12 word mnemonic, how many additional bytes of entropy is recommended I use?
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How can I generate SegWit addresses from a mnemonic using python?
So, I have written a script that generates BIP39 mnemonics. I now want to generate N native SegWit public keys from this mnemonic.
I have found this, but it generates legacy addresses. It uses the ...
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Howto convert mnemonic->seed->root key->derived addresses with c library (libWally)
I am trying to use the cryptowallet library LibWally to convert a 12-word mnemonic into a set of derived addresses. I believe my mistake is not with the library itself, but a process flow/algorithmic ...
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Working Implementations of BIP85
Can anyone point me to working implementations of BIP85?
The only one I'm aware of is the Coldcard Wallet implementation.
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similar seed words minor sequence difference
I created a wallet weeks back and seemingly restored the seed onto my other 2 devices. Recently I got to notice that I had mistakenly logged into another wallet with identical seed words but I ...
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Algorithm to recover missing 12th word (of 12) in BIP39 mnemonic
I'm trying to recover my Wasabi wallet. For some reason the 12th word of the 12-word mnemonic I wrote was wrong (not in BIP39 list). I could manually guess up to 2048 times, but was hoping there might ...
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secp256k1.publicKeyCreate generating symbollic key
Following is my code:
const bip39 = require("bip39");
var HDKey = require('hdkey');
var bip32 = require("bip32");
var bitcoin = require('bitcore-lib');
var EthereumBip44 = require('...
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Which derivation paths are used by the Abra wallet?
Abra have stated in a reddit comment that their non-custodial HD wallet uses custom derivation paths to convert the user's BIP39 mnemonic seed into cryptocurrency address/key pairs. Has anyone figured ...
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Is an extraction of the mnemonic string possible if wallet and corresponding passphrase are in possesion?
My problem is that I have access to my wallet and I am able to access it with Electrum because I have the passphrase but I somehow misplaced the seed.
Is it possible to decrypt/extract and obtain the ...
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