Quote from: Ghepetto on February 25, 2023, 08:53:36 PM

I was trying to ask how to use a seed phrase without a HW, generated from a HW in something like electrum. AKA -seed compatibility. And could this be exploited by governments to attack HW's had the answer to the previous question been not compatible. But this seems like a non issue.

It's certainly a non-issue for bitcoin. There are plenty of good open source software wallets out there which accept BIP39 seed phrases.

For altcoins, however, it is a different story. You'll have no problems with the major ones, but for some random shitcoin there is no guarantee whatsoever that there is some standalone wallet software which will allow you to import seed phrases.

Quote from: Pmalek on Today at 08:01:18 AM

Your coins could be lost if the original derivation path is something completely unorthodox and there would be no one in the world who knows which one it is.

Which again, won't be an issue for bitcoin, but could certainly be an issue for the software for some random altcoin with a poor implementation which is using arbitrary derivation paths and no one knows what they are.