I like this proposal and I see it's value: "One seed to rule them all." Not hard to implement either. --- Peter D. Gray || Founder, Coinkite || Twitter: @dochex || GPG: A3A31BAD 5A2A5B10 On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 03:44:01PM +0000, Ethan Kosakovsky wrote: > I would like to present a proposal for discussion and peer review. It aims to solve the problem of "too many seeds and too many backups" due to the many reasons stipulated in the proposal text. > > https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ethankosakovsky/f7d148f588d14e0bb4f70bb6afc509d0/raw/6da51e837b0e1f1b2b21f3d4cbc2c5a87969ffd5/bip-entropy-from-bip32.mediawiki > >
>   BIP:
>   Title: Deterministic Entropy From BIP32 Keychains
>   Author: Ethan Kosakovsky 
>   Comments-Summary: No comments yet.
>   Comments-URI:
>   Status: Proposed
>   Type: Standards Track
>   Created: 2020-03-20
>   License: BSD-2-Clause
>            OPL
> 
> > ==Abstract== > > This proposal provides a way to derive entropy from a HD keychain path in order to deterministically derive the initial entropy used to create keychain mnemonics and seeds. > ...