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Interactive explainer of wallet seed phrases, entropy, and BIP39bennet.org/blog/how-secure-is-your-bitcoin-wallets-mnemonic-seed-phrase/
3254 sats \ 7 comments \ @tombennet 22h bitcoin
This started as a fun JS experiment for myself, exploring how seed phrases are built from entropy. After positive feedback from friends, I turned it into a full guide to wallet recovery phrases - covering entropy, checksums, SHA-256, and how it connects to HD wallets (in a hopefully accessible way).
It’s fully interactive - flip bits, see your mnemonic change. I hope it offers an intuitive way to understand what’s going on under the hood.
Feedback and suggestions very welcome.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @alexbit 7h
Good stuff! I also liked the other article on your blog about an easy way for a website to receive Lightning payments.
For my service Bitcoin Is Data, I used BTCPay Server, and it was a pain to set it up correctly. If your solution had been available at the time, I would have chosen yours!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsTomekK 9h
This is so good! Thank you tom
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @d680ecaa8e 11h
Recovery phrases are hard to memorize without taking screenshots.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 19h
Very cool! I like how you can play around with it.
Will flipping the dice ever create an invalid checksum? I've tried this in wallet software just to enter random words. The last word is limited to get a valid check sum. I Still haven't really understood how the last word can't just be any from the list.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 19h
@remindme in 14 hours
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @stax 20h
Good job 👏 👍 👌
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @HighOfLot 13h outlawed
stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.