From: Neill Miller <neillm@thecodefactory•org>
To: Jonathan Underwood <junderwood@bitcoinbank•co.jp>,
Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: somber.night@protonmail•com
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP- & SLIP-0039 -- better multi-language support
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 09:03:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181116140335.GA11584@boiler.chaos.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMpN3m+Zo6LG1wCkW7tLZy7VzpF8YpjHQqq7StO78C0P-8y0Ew@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 02:17:30PM +0900, Jonathan Underwood via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> If more apps would implement to the word of the BIP39 spec, multiple
> languages make sense, but since reality is no one follows the spec (/the
> spec is way too open to interpretation) then expecting every app to load
> every language is unreasonable.
>
> Electrum actually handles BIP39 recovery the way the BIP specifies. I can
> restore random strings if I want, and it warns me, and I can ignore it if I
> wish.
Electrum mnemonics are not based on BIP39, which is why it can do
this.
-Neill.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-16 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-08 10:37 SomberNight
2018-11-09 5:17 ` Jonathan Underwood
2018-11-16 14:03 ` Neill Miller [this message]
2018-11-16 14:05 ` Jonathan Underwood
2018-11-16 14:15 ` Neill Miller
[not found] <mailman.2299.1542895684.19477.bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
2018-11-22 17:25 ` Weiji Guo
[not found] <CABsxsG27bJN0vGRJOP3=zriPvkL+G8n3t2nd6Y8L6KwW4ePdeg@mail.gmail.com>
2018-11-19 19:54 ` Steven Hatzakis
2018-11-20 1:51 ` Natanael
[not found] <mailman.1087.1541036387.10264.bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
2018-11-06 16:16 ` Weiji Guo
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