Questions tagged [mnemonic]
Mostly BIP39, an open standard for encoding a seed as a series of common words, but also collects other methodologies.
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Best practice for storing a user's private key or mnemonic locally on their computer
So, I'll immediately preface this question with a statement:
You should never share your private key or mnemonic phrase with anyone for any reason. This gives that person full access to your wallet, ...
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Why is it considered a good practice to generate private key from mnemonic words?
If I understand things correctly - we can use 12 mnemonic words to generate a private key. Having 2048 possible mnemonic words it means that there will be 2048^12 possible states.
Private key is 256 ...
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What is best to use - Private Key or Mnemonic?
Is there a best practice for which one to use?
Many tutorials online take various approaches - the older ones seems to use mnemonic whereas the newer ones tends to utilize private key.
I understand ...
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Create Mnemonic using react-native and BIP39 is not working
I tried to generate mnemonic for my react native application using Both BIP39 and react-native-Bip39 and it is working fine in the simulator but as soon as I try to generate a mnemonic on a physical ...
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Bruteforce BIP39 seed phrase?
I have a couple words unclear/missing from my 24-word BIP39 seed phrase, which unlocks my Ethereum address.
I want to bruteforce through all possible seed phrases and find the one. It shouldn't take ...
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How to validate my mnemonic before my hardware wallet is broken? (SafePal)
I just bought a SafePal wallet, I really like it.
But I am pretty sure that it will get broken at some point.
So I started to get afraid what if I broke my SafePal, bought another one, and turned out ...
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ONE MNEMONIC different addresses [duplicate]
I will try keep it short.
I am having a curious case here. In etherscan I see all coins available in my address. All except one shit coin is available on my old windows machine, that I was using some ...
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Guessing mnemonic phrase based on the first 2 public addresses
Last hopeless attempt. I know that infinite amount of private keys can be generated from a mnemonic phrase and usually MetaMask, etc picks the first one from the list to use as the public address. ...
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Generating a private key from a single mnemonic
I want to generate an Ethereum private key from a single word mnemonic. For example,
(1) I could use keccack256 online tool to transform a word to a private key. Would this be a valid key? Are there ...
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How to create mnemonic with 13th/25th
How can I create the wallet that has a mnemonic with an extra word that I choose? I tried doing that with MyEtherWallet however when I create it with MEW I don't get the private key. I'd like to get ...
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Whether mnemonic can be same for ether and tron wallet?
If the 12 mnemonic words are always same for both ether and tron wallet, I can use same 12 words to create two different type wallets
Thanks.
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Generate private keys from seed phrase [duplicate]
I am working with @truffle/hdwallet-provider library.
This library works with a mnemonic. Is is basically a seedphrase.
Is there a way to work with this library outside truffle ? (I mean in a ...
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Restore Brave Browser Crypto Wallets with seed from MEW
I've created a MEW wallet and noted the seed (Mnemonic phrase).
After playing around with the Brave Browser and its Crypto Wallets plugin, I tried to restore the account from the seed I received from ...
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how come i can generate keys using bip39 with only one words as seedphrase/mnemonic without any error?
Seed phrase/mnemonic is supposed to be 12 words or 24 words but I am able to generate keys with single word seed phrase using bip39 library without any error? what is happening here? how is this ...
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Recover all the account under Mnemonic using ethers.js
I am new using ethers.js
const { Wallet } = require('ethers');
const wallet = Wallet.fromMnemonic('one two three four ...');
I want to use that code to recover all the accounts from that Mnemonic. ...
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Fundamental question! (HD Wallet private key hacked) [closed]
What is the probability of the mnemonic or privatekey of the HD wallet being hacked?
It is being used as a wallet created by metamask.
The user is using a wallet with a private key backed up by ...
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What are the odds of getting same address or private-key or 12/24 set of mnemonic to 2 different people
Questions!!
What are the chances that 2 people get the same set of those 12 or 24-word mnemonic??
In web3.js, there is a function ' web3.eth.accounts.wallet '... It spits out a set of accounts and ...
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How to create private key from mnemonic and extra-word using web3
In web3js, I can use below code to get private key and wallet address from mnemonic. But how can I get private key if user has mnemonic and extra-word from MEW
const ethers = require('ethers');
let ...
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i have wallet's keystore file and private key. how can i find mnemonic words [duplicate]
I have keystore file and private key of my wallet. i need this wallet's mnemonic words.
How can i find mnemonic phrase from this json file and private key? I tried mycrypto and mew but i couldnt find ...
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What function/method does MetaMask use to generate the entropy for mnemonic keys?
I am trying to understand how exactly MetaMask is generating the initial entropy to create its mnemonic key. There are questions like this, MetaMask's documentation, or their GitHub but I can't find ...
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Limit of address creation using single mnemonic
How many Ethereum address can be created using a single mnemonic for Ethereum using derivation path?
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If Wallet and address generated using EthHDWallet, can we get its recovery using ethereumjs-utils/hdkey getWallet() method by provideing seed?
Generated wallet address using:
let mnemonic = request.body.seed;
const wallet = EthHdWallet.fromMnemonic(mnemonic);
let address = wallet.generateAddresses(1);
console.log(wallet, address);
How can ...
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Which mnemonic generators exist or existed?
I am unable to open a wallet I created roughly 2 years ago.
In that time I have been using MEW, MetaMask and something that I installed locally on Window, which I forgot the name of. Not sure which ...
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is it possible to get address and private key from mnemonic code?
I have question
Is it possible to get address and private key from mnemonic code??
For example)
I created address (0x12345) and I receive mnemonic code such as apple bed bad rice
If i know mnemonic ...
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How to make password with mnemonic words?
i'm new on blockchain development and i'm trying to make a login like metamask in vuejs. Can someone teach me how to make 13 mnemonics word, where the last mnemonic is the password value get from an ...
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How to export mnemonics for a specific account in MetaMask
How can I get the mnemonics from a specific account in Metamask?
I found the reveal seed words in the settings-dialog, but this seems to be something global.
Instead of this I want to export the 12 ...
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Can I pass my mnemonic to ganache/ ganache-cli when it is starting up?
I am wondering if I can pass the mnemonic that I created using metamask to boot up my local ganache network so that I do not have to log out and login metamask with different mnemonic everytime for a ...
