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Bitcoin => Electrum => Topic started by: jonald_fyookball on May 05, 2017, 06:36:34 PM



Title: why didnt electrum make all new seeds bip39?
Post by: jonald_fyookball on May 05, 2017, 06:36:34 PM
its cool electrum supports bip39 but why wasn't bip39 used exclusively ?


Title: Re: why didnt electrum make all new seeds bip39?
Post by: cpfreeplz on May 05, 2017, 06:40:25 PM
Idk, sometimes people don't like change for whatever reason. I don't see any reason at all not to support BIP39 but people are pretty radical 'round these parts.


Title: Re: why didnt electrum make all new seeds bip39?
Post by: Coding Enthusiast on May 06, 2017, 04:24:59 AM
(CRITICAL) Incorrect derivation for certain BIP39 keys, fund loss  (https://github.com/iancoleman/bip39/issues/58)

P.S. Electrum is not effected by this.