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Re: Create a seed from a selection of words
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Synchronice
on 27/06/2023, 20:14:08 UTC
Keep in mind that security of revealed 24 words out of order is still not as high as security of a private key because you are revealing your entropy and 620,448,401,733,239,439,360,000 is 6e+23 whereas security of a bitcoin private key is 2128=3e+38.
I think one can feel secure till death or even after.

The normal user generates in his life maybe 10 addresses and not always the sum times the number of people who live in 100 years make it very unlikely.
Let's say all 8 billion people on the planet all generate 1,000 new addresses every second for the next 5 billion years non stop. After 5 billion years we will only have generated 0.00000000000000009% of all possible addresses.
This is so right! And I don't really understand why do some people think that because 2048 word list is public, it will be dangerous and unsafe, I just can't figure it out because they can mathematically prove that the probability of someone bruteforcing their wallet with positive result is so low that we can confidently say that it will never happen. At least one can create a new wallet and transfer coins every year but logically and mathematically, absolutely everyone is safe.

I really pray that one day people will never look for alternative methods of generating bitcoin seeds.