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30 comments \ @saloon 24 Aug \ yesterday

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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 25 Aug

Todays most downzapped post.

Iran Blew Up the Navy’s Supply Hub. Lincoln’s Crew Paid the Price.

Thanks to the kind Zionist who contributed 3333 sats to the rewards pool to silence the truth about the failing US attack on Iran.

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 25 Aug

Historical background to the Iran war.

228 sats \ 4 replies \ @Fenix 25 Aug

is there a wallet that supports bip-39 in another language? is it a good idea build a wallet like that? who defines the words?

I recently discovered that bitcoin core doesn’t implemented this bip, I don’t know why.

203 sats \ 3 replies \ @optimism 25 Aug

is it a good idea build a wallet like that?

Not really. It's recommended against in the BIP text

Since the vast majority of BIP39 wallets supports only the English wordlist, it is strongly discouraged to use non-English wordlists for generating the mnemonic sentences.

BIP-39 since recently also states under shortcomings:

Generated seed depends on the wordlist that was used for the mnemonic. Because the "mnemonic to seed" process uses the mnemonic sentence directly rather than the original entropy, translating the mnemonic to a different wordlist necessarily creates a completely different seed. This is not an issue if you only support the English wordlist, as recommended above.

So yes, you can use anything custom, but you cannot ever lose it. It's not a recommended use because text has encoding of its own, especially when using non-ascii characters. If you make something custom, drop the hash(words) and instead do.

Generation:

byte entropy -encode-> words
   |
   \-hash-> BIP-32 seed

And restore:

words -decode-> bytes -hash-> seed

126 sats \ 2 replies \ @Fenix 25 Aug

So yes, you can use anything custom, but you cannot ever lose it

This is like make my own cypher, what is a really bad idea.

“Don't try to reinvent the wheel” rule

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @optimism 25 Aug

Honestly? This is a square wheel. So by all means go and reinvent it, but it'll be extremely painful to convince anyone to implement your new standard, which is basically why BIP-39 is used by everyone except electrum.

126 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fenix 25 Aug

I’ll keep using the standard implementation.

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @winteryeti 24 Aug

119 sats \ 4 replies \ @SimpleStacker 24 Aug

The absolute state of university IT departments

(this is new, we didn't used to have to do this)

43 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 24 Aug

What’s the consequence for failure?

46 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 24 Aug

Revocation of tenure and immediate transportation to the reeducation camps

142 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 24 Aug

46 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 24 Aug

1 sat \ 2 replies \ @SatAttack 24 Aug

I think a cool tool to have would be a metal stencil sheet with all 2048 BIP39 words that way you can quickly and neatly engrave seeds into metal sheets

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @SHA256man 24 Aug

some time later... the ring:

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatAttack 24 Aug

or a ring with all the words on small individual stencils!

105 sats \ 4 replies \ @Scoresby 24 Aug

And just like that, there's a little less Bitcoin:

source

103 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 24 Aug

maybe i'm dumb but what does it mean by "they didn't claim it"?

i don't know much about block construction. did they just send the fees to a null address or something like that?

298 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 24 Aug

When a miner finds a block, nodes will accept it as long as they don't award themselves more than the block reward + fees. But it is up to the miner to ensure that they send all those sats to an address they own. If they don't, the sats never come into existence (or get burned if they were fees).