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Collects questions about deterministic wallets i.e. wallets that derive all private keys in a predictable way from a seed. Deterministic wallets have better backup properties than unrelated random private keys.

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BIP32 recommends a 256 bit seed. Why do most Bitcoin wallets only use a 128 bit seed?

According to BIP32's "Master key generation" section, "256 bits is advised". See https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawiki#Master_key_generation Why did BIP32 consider 256 bits …
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