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55 sats \ 1 reply \ @LibertasBR 23 Jun \ parent \ on: Bitcoin Safety: Why 12 Words are Better Than 24 - YouTube bitcoin
I never thought about it that way, that the words are not actually the private key, they are a mnemonic resource to make memorization easier. It’s like an interaction mask, is that it? I’m not a technical person.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 23 Jun
Yes exactly. It’s what we call an encoding. It’s kind of like how in English we call a school bag a backpack and in Spanish a mochila and we can draw it as a picture. They’re all different encodings of the same information.
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