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Re: Why do hardware wallets like Trezor create 100 addresses?
by
Kprawn
on 11/11/2015, 16:19:54 UTC
If I understand it correctly the Trezor wallet creates 100 address and provides seed words to recreate these later if the device stops working.

But when I create a paper wallet then just one address is created.

What's the advantage of creating a large number of addresses and why do hardware wallets like Trezor create so many?

You know, if you use https://www.bitaddress.org and you create paper wallets, you could set the Addresses to generate: field to the amount of paper wallets you want it

to create. A fun way of doing it, is to set it to say 10 000 and then to scroll down the page, until you find a public address you like and print screen it.

Doing this offline, is the preferred method, and then rebooting after you generated it. Also clearing the printer buffer, with a hard reboot. Not 100% safe, but still a good strategy.