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Re: Seed phrase recovery?
by
fanya
on 07/05/2025, 16:14:10 UTC
There are 50 words. At that time I was using an Electrum version that is years old now. Maybe around 2012? Definitely nothing newer, -snip-
Theoretically, you can create an non-standard old Electrum seed phrase with higher number words by using very old Electrum's "mnemonic.py" script with a very long seed (Hex, 3 words per 32-bit)

E.g. in v0.30's mnemonic.py:
https://www.talkimg.com/images/2025/05/06/UUSHad.png
But you can't use that in old nor new Electrum clients, it's not the accepted "old_seed" format.

I doubt that it's an old Electrum seed if it isn't 12 words.
There should be 12 words but I mixed these words manually and wrote them down with many other words in a certain pattern because I was excited about the uniqueness of storing Bitcoin as individually as possible.

Unfortunately, I no longer have a solution to my pattern, but the required words are here.