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Board Electrum
Re: How safe it is to use 4 letter shortened words?
by
ovcijisir
on 26/04/2025, 20:53:44 UTC
Then why the difference in words like the scenario OP faced.
I thought they had same number but quite different words.
I alrady answered this in my previous post.

Electrum started to use BIP39 wordlist in the version 2.0 which was released in 2015. Before that, electrum had a different wordlist.
Electrum still allow you to import old seeds even if you use new versions and that's why it suggests words from the old wordlist too.

To be clear I generated seed words from newer version of Electrum. I don't know exact version but I run it from Tails OS that is maximum 1 year old, so it is definitely not Electrum older than 2015.

Next time wnen I run Tails I'll check version of Electrum to be 100% sure what is its version.