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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can i use one Mnemonic Code to create both(TestNet and MainNet) wallets
currently i am using bitcoinj library to create wallet for both Main-net and Test-net using Mnemonic code(Mnemonic Code is different for both), my question is can i create both Wallets(Test-net and ...
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How do I get my master public key from a wallet?
If a HD wallet only gives me the 12 word mnemonic, how can one get the master public key?
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Importing 24 word mnemonic to bitcoin-qt
How can I import my 24 word mnemonic seed into bitcoin-qt?
I think that I will have to convert it to some other format but I don't know how to do that nor what format to use. BIP 39 does not work.
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How to generate a valid hash for a bip39 seed phrase?
I'm trying to prove to myself that I understand how bip39 seed phrases work... I'm doing most of this in a spreadsheet because I thought it would be easier but I'm having trouble with the checksum ...
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16 word recovery phrase for blockchain wallet not working
I downloaded my blockchain wallet but now i forget the password and my recovery phrase is 16 word, so I tried them but they are not working. Can somebody please help me?
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Where do I find my Blockchain wallet's change address?
Six days ago, I sent some bitcoin and it hasn't been confirmed. In an attempt to execute a Child-pays-for-parent transaction, I used my mnemonic seed to derive addresses from my blockchain wallet(in ...
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What is Blockchains 12 word recovery passphrase process [closed]
Hello thank you for looking.
I am trying to discover a simple way of creating blockchains 12 Word Recovery Passphrase, they have a so called help page on this subject which is of very little help and ...
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Trying to restore from 17 word seed
I just found a seed for my very first wallet ever, I thought was long gone. Problem is my hand writing was shit at the time...(still is lol)
I have tried to restore in using this block chain tool:
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Mnemonic seed BIP 39 HD wallet with vanity address
Can we create a mnemonic seed BIP 39 HD wallet with vanity address for LITECOIN, if yes, how?
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How to restore wallet from 15-word seed mnemonic?
The wallet was created around Feb 2013, using unknown wallet software. All that is known is a passprase, and 15 words. I suspect the passphrase was used to encrypt the wallet, and is probably ...
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Does bitcoind (as of 0.15) support BIP39 mnemonic phrase for wallets?
Can bitcoind print out a BIP39 seed phrase to backup the wallet?
Can I import a BIP39 seed phrase (from, for example, Breadwallet on iOS)into bitcoind?
I know bitcoind wallets have been BIP32 format ...
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Unsure order of 12 word mnemonic
I have a 12 word mnemonic but I'm unsure of the order, I know that the BIP39 mnemonics use a checksum, are there any tools I can use to re-order the 12 words correctly so that they pass the checksum?
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Why is this 12-word mnemonic deemed invalid by multiple wallets?
I have a 12-word mnemonic from a Blockchain.info wallet created in May 2013. But now the Blockchain recovery page[1] tells me this is an invalid seed.
I'm sure this is not user error, since the ...
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What is the secure, self-hosted wallet to redeem BTG (Bitcoin Gold)?
Hacking and being hacked is not cool
I'm looking for a decent solution to redeem BTG.
Ideally self-hosted and open source.
I have 12 words seed phrase, BIP39, deterministic derivation path, etc...
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How can I generate a Bitcoin address from a 12 word seed without using a computer?
I have a 12 word seed and I want to generate an address without exposing it to any computers. How can I accomplish this?
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How to generate mycelium addresses from the 12 words in python
I am trying to re-generate the receiving addresses (and change addresses, for that matter) my mycelium wallet has generated.
So far I've used trezor's implementation of BIP39 to generate the entropy ...
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BTG wallet or exchange with BIP39 seed import
Can anyone recommend a Bitcoin Gold exchange or SPV wallet for Linux that supports importing wallets from a BIP39 seed? The best I’ve found so far is a fork of Electrum that supports BTG for Windows ...
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How does mnemonic recover a single private key?
As I understand the algorithm of mnemonic (BIP39) can generate billions of private keys from your 14-24 words.
Whats the mechanism that some wallets/clients use to recover a single private key, my ...
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Is it possible to determine BIP39 keys are related
Is it possible to determine if public or private keys generated with a single same BIP39 phrase are related to one another?
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Obtaining 12 word mnemonic from Private & Public Keys
After a recent upgrade to Jaxx wallet my Litecoins and my transaction history are lost.
The 12 word mnemonic opens up a wallet with zero Litecoin balance even though the public key address from the ...
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Practical way to split a bip39 seed into a 2 out of 3 factor auth?
I want to keep off-site paper-backups of my seed, but that increases the risk of a physical attack. Can I somehow split my Mnemonic Code into three parts that I only need two of to recover my trezor?
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NBitcoin and Mnemonic Standards
I am very new to Bitcoin development so forgive me...
I'm using NBitcoin in a .Net console app to generate a master key using a mnemonic and then derive hierarchical keys. Here is the code I am using:
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Does BIP39 mnemonic construction avoid repeating words?
Will all 24 words of a seed-phrase be unique by specification? Or is it possible for a word to occupy two positions (ie the word "tool" is #8 AND #20 in a valid, securely generated seed)
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BIP39 seed and secret key
My understanding is that the 12-word seed is used to recover wallets' private keys. However, if each private key is 256-bits long, and the dictionary for the seed only contains 2048 words, then that's ...
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How to import Multibit HD Wallet in bcoin?
I created a wallet using Multibit HD and noted the mnemonic. I sent some money to an address that showed up in Multibit HD. Worked fine. Transaktions are displayed and balance is adjusted. Can be ...
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HD wallet implementation
I want to create public addresses in offline browser from master public key so that owner of master private can access the funds available in child address.
but I am not able to understand how to use ...
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BIP44 generation tool has Account xpubkey & bip32 xpubkey, what's the difference?
recently i played with the tool generation of HD address on https://iancoleman.github.io/bip39/. after input mnemonic code and check the derivation path, why is there Account Extended Public Key & ...
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MyMonero wallet recovery with phrase [closed]
I'm sorry to both you with this.
Mymonero.com has been down for several days and I'd like to remove the monero from my wallet on that website.
All I have is the original phrase I set it up with ...
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How to generate recovery phrase from private key
I created a brain wallet with a non standard phrase.
So I have that, the private and public keys.
Now this wallet app wants a 12 word recovery phrase to set up the wallet.
How can I convert what I ...
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Is mnemonic words -> mnemonic sentence standardized?
I was reading the BIP 39, and noticed that it does not refer to how the mnemonic sentence, used for seed calculation, is composed from mnemonic words. This is actually troublesome because in case of ...
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Is the Electrum seed compatible with other wallets?
Apologies if this is a simple question - a newbie here!
I'm trying to understand backups. If I use Electrum to make a back up (including the 12 word seed password), will I then need to use Electrum to ...
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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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Wallet recovery phrase
Due to a copying error the last word of my 12 word mnemonic recovery phrase for blockchain is missing.
Just wondering if anyone knows of any software that could generate words and automatically test ...
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Do I understand correctly that mnemonic seeds are specific to individual wallet software and its versions?
I know mnemonic passphrases are used to derive a master key that can then be used to procedurally generate your addresses. If you lose everything except the mnemonic, you can regenerate everything and ...
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What is a mnemonic frequency analysis and why do I only need 4 letters of my seed words?
Cryptosteel only allows to store the first 4 letters of each word of my mnemonic seed, the FAQ tells me why:
[...] you only need to assemble the first 4 letters of each word. Those 4 letters are ...
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Will Electrum mnemonic seeds be forward compatible with all future versions of Electrum?
If I use the newest version of Electrum (2.6.4) to create a mnemonic seed and the current source code (2.6.4) later becomes unavailable, will I be still able to use a mnemonic seed I create now with ...
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Mnemonic seed language options
How many languages are mnemonic seeds currently offered in other than English?
Does the entropy for different languages depend on the number of words the relevant dictionary has available to draw ...
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Are there any HD Bitcoin mobile wallets with the mnemonic seed in traditional Chinese?
If not, what would be the easiest way to modify an open source iOS/Android wallet (eg copay) to do this?
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Trezor Custom Mnemonic
How do I go about using words I pick in a trezor seed? I only want words that I select and in an order I select.
I'm not worried about this being a less secure way to generate a seed. I will be doing ...
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How can I recover last word of BIP-32/39 mnemonic copay second signature multisig wallet
I've got a multisig 2of2 wallet in copay.
I've one wallet correct but have lost second wallet and only have 11 of the 12 words of the seed.I'm pretty sure I miss the last one.
I've got some of the ...
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Recovering a HD wallet from a partial seed phrase
I am attempting to help recover a wallet where the owner only wrote down 11 of the 12 words in the seed phrase. Initially, I thought the task would be a quick and well-defined, but it appears to be a ...
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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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Ramifications of creating Electrum 2.x seeds which are not BIP39
Electrum 2.0 seeds (mnemonic phrases) are created with a checksum based algorithm (such that the hmac_sha512 starts with 01. It's usually a 13 word seed, but can be 12 in some circumstances.
If all ...
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Is it safe to store a sha256 hash of my BIP39 seed on the blockchain?
According to https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki a 12 word BIP39 passphrase has entropy of 128 bits.
My reason for doing so is that when I want check if I memorized my ...
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BIP39 Japanese Mnemonic vector unit test process
There is a json for unit tests of Japanese characters which I want to validate using Python, specifically with this fork of pybitcointools, which has bip39 functionality.
Unit tests from Trezor's ...
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Electrum 2.0: non-BIP39/32 standardisation complicates matters immensely. Why?
Electrum 2.0 has been causing me some frustration, insofar as it seems to be a non-standard implementation of BIP32/BIP39 (HD wallets, mnemonic seed, respectively). The wallet in question is a 2of2 ...
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Why are Electrum 2.x mnemonic sentences thirteen words long?
The 2.x version of Electrum uses mnemonic sentences that are 13 words long. However, 1.x versions use a sentence only 12 words long.
I realize that 2.x changed the derivation of key pairs ...
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Matching KeyPath in application with Wallet32 Keypath for Bip44 wallets
I have an application where I create an HD wallet with a passphrase and save the public master key to the database for the user.
Then, I want the user to be able to back up the wallet to their own ...
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Pros/Cons/Limitations of Mnemonic Phrases - BIP39
BIP39 mnemonic phrases replace considerations about how to store one private key, with considerations about how to store the seed to a series of private keys.
The idea is that the private keys are ...
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