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August 13, 2016, 05:46:49 PM
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Is there something like that?

I found a few repos where you can run the web generator client-side but they don't give you a seed to rebuild your wallet like electrum does



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August 13, 2016, 05:48:37 PM
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The seed is for a heirarchical deterministic wallet. It is used to generate multiple keys. Paper wallets are just one key, thus there is no seed. If you want some sort of "seed" for a private key, then you need to use a brainwallet. However, I highly recommend against this since brainwallets are insecure, especially when the user has to think of the word to use as the seed.

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August 13, 2016, 08:00:56 PM
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Thanks I'm kind of new with this, so there's no workaround? once you lose your paper wallet's private key you lost if forever?
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August 13, 2016, 09:03:12 PM
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Thanks I'm kind of new with this, so there's no workaround? once you lose your paper wallet's private key you lost if forever?
Yes.

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