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The private key is the key that allows you to access the coins and tokens in your address.Ī private key allows you to generate multiple associated public keys. What is a private key?Įvery public key is paired with a private key (which you must never share). You can share this address with anyone, they cannot use your address or public key to access your coins or tokens. For example when using MetaMask the address is displayed whenever you open the extension: Wallets will let you copy the address so that you or others can send payments to the address. As the name suggests it is public, therefore you can share it with anyone.Ī public key that is used to receive transactions is usually known as an “address”, which is a shortened version of your public key. The public key is the key that allows you to receive cryptocurrency transactions from others.

Your wallet will automatically run your seed phrase through the appropriate algorithm. Note that depending on the Blockchain you want to interact with a different algorithm will be used to generate your keys. This also means your new wallet doesn’t have to be from the same company, as long as it is BIP39 compatible. This means that as long as you have your seed phrase you can regain access to your crypto, even if your wallet stops working you can simply purchase a new BIP39 compatible wallet and recover your private keys. The same seed phrase will always generate the same set of public and private keys - this is called a deterministic wallet, meaning that it will always arrive at the same result. When you load your seed phrase into a wallet it is put through an algorithm to generate public and private keys. How are your keys generated using the BIP39 wordlist?
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In this case you would store “add” as one word and just “addi” from “addict” which would be enough to identify the full word if you needed to recover your wallet (you can test this by searching the wordlist above).
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You may find that some offline seed phrase backup devices only have space for 4 letters. In the case of 3 letter words you will need to think of the 4th letter as a “blank”, hence the wordlist can have words such as “add” and “addict”. The english wordlist has words ranging from 3 letters and up to 8 letters.Įach word can be uniquely identified by the its first 4 letters. You can use the search bar to narrow down to a selection of words: The following is the full set of the English wordlist, which most wallets and applications use.
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“The wordlist is sorted which allows for more efficient lookup of the code words.” “Word pairs like “build” and “built”, “woman” and “women”, or “quick” and “quickly” not only make remembering the sentence difficult but are also more error prone and more difficult to guess.” “The wordlist is created in such a way that it’s enough to type the first four letters to unambiguously identify the word.”

The wordlist follows the characteristics detailed in BIP39: The BIP39 English wordlist has 2048 carefully selected words. Instead the wordlist a set of carefully curated words that allow you to easily write them down for backup or when recovering a wallet. It would also take a long time to input this phrase into a new device, and once again be highly error prone. You can imagine that writing these keys down for recovery is highly error prone, if just one character changes you would not be able to access your coins.
