From: Neill Miller <neillm@thecodefactory•org>
To: Jonathan Underwood <junderwood@bitcoinbank•co.jp>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org, somber.night@protonmail•com
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP- & SLIP-0039 -- better multi-language support
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 09:15:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181116141510.GB11584@boiler.chaos.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMpN3mLRUD+cobNHtK=5dCL2hpGZJaR2TYzKb_643BC-wM5feQ@mail.gmail.com>
Ah, ok. I've worked with the non-BIP39 Electrum mnemonics, which have
this behaviour, but haven't tried the BIP39 support within it.
Thanks,
-Neill.
On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 11:05:50PM +0900, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> Nope.
>
> This is how Electrum treats BIP39 restoring as well, try it out.
>
> -Jon
>
> 2018年11月16日(金) 23:04、Neill Miller さん（neillm@thecodefactory•org）のメッセージ:
>
> > 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.
> >
> >
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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
2018-11-16 14:05 ` Jonathan Underwood
2018-11-16 14:15 ` Neill Miller [this message]
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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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