📅 Original date posted:2022-04-06
📝 Original message:On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 11:21:17PM +0000, Achow101 wrote:
> The seed is encoded as a WIF private key. Decoding as WIF will result in the 32 byte seed that can be used as specified in BIP 32.
Thanks fro the response Andrew, works as you say!
I am totally _not_ surprised that I was unable to work this out, for future
reference is there anything about those 52 characters from which I should have
been able to tell it is a WIF private key? Why is the seed not just the 32 bytes
of seed data?
Thanks for you time,
Tobin.
Tobin Harding [ARCHIVE] /
npub1sj…uh28y
2023-06-07 23:06:58
in reply to nevent1q…s3kd
Author Public Key
npub1sjul23khr55e77kqjwk78k329gvvz97ynuzx92zkppxc7xnyyt9s5uh28yPublished at
2023-06-07 23:06:58Event JSON
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"content": "📅 Original date posted:2022-04-06\n📝 Original message:On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 11:21:17PM +0000, Achow101 wrote:\n\u003e The seed is encoded as a WIF private key. Decoding as WIF will result in the 32 byte seed that can be used as specified in BIP 32.\n\nThanks fro the response Andrew, works as you say!\n\nI am totally _not_ surprised that I was unable to work this out, for future\nreference is there anything about those 52 characters from which I should have\nbeen able to tell it is a WIF private key? Why is the seed not just the 32 bytes\nof seed data?\n\nThanks for you time,\nTobin.",
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