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Seed phrases

A seed phrase is a human-readable backup encoding used by many hierarchical deterministic wallets to recreate a wallet’s key material.

Context

Why it matters

A seed phrase is a human-readable backup encoding used by many hierarchical deterministic wallets to recreate a wallet’s key material.

Canonical knowledge

What California Bitcoin maintains

  • A seed phrase is a human-readable backup encoding used by many hierarchical deterministic wallets to recreate a wallet’s key material.

Primary and technical sources

Evidence before assertion
Bitcoin Developer Documentation

Bitcoin.org

Tier — · technicalBitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

Satoshi Nakamoto

Tier 1 · primary

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