Collects questions about deterministic wallets i.e. wallets that derive all private keys in a predictable way from a seed. Deterministic wallets have better backup properties than unrelated random private keys.
Questions tagged [deterministic-wallets]
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How do deterministic wallets know how many keys to generate?
Say I backup the "seed/key" for a deterministic wallet. I then create 10,000 transactions, resulting in 10,000 new addresses being generated.
Say I then lose the wallet file and I restore from the "seed/key". How does the deterministic wallet know…
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HD / Deterministic Wallets and public key
I understand the basic concept of generating an unlimited number of public key addresses from a master public key. What I won't understand is how to get the wallet balance. Do I have to query unspent outputs for every public key in the wallet that I…
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How secure are current deterministic wallets?
Can someone explain how secure the deterministic wallet implementations of Electrum and Armory are? As far as I know, Electrum uses a 128-bit seed to generate all the addresses. I don't get this because since even a single bitcoin address consists…
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Deterministic wallet audit ability
Deterministic wallet described in BIP 32 has an auditing functionality by sharing the public parent key.
https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide#hierarchical-deterministic-key-creation
But if I use the variant if the Hardened Keys the generation of…
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Are hierarchical deterministic Keys secure even against their children?
Say for example, you have 1 HD Key and are generating multiple children keys. Say a max of 2147483647 child keys.
Would it be possible to figure out the parent HD pub/priv keys if somebody were to get a large percentage of the child keys?
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