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Quote from: Maverick Zeng on June 23, 2025, 03:46:50 AM
When attempting to import this incorrectly ordered mnemonic into various mainstream wallets like Trust Wallet, MetaMask, and SafePal, they all correctly displayed "Invalid Mnemonic."
But then, astonishingly, upon importing this very same "incorrectly ordered mnemonic" into Electrum Wallet under the BIP-39 format option, it succeeded! And what emerged was a completely new, active Bitcoin wallet with recent transaction history from just a few days ago!
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I hope someone can shed light on my confusion and curiosity. Many thanks!
It's rather simple: Electrum doesn't prevent the user to create a wallet from an invalid BIP39 seed phrase.
It will only show a warning below the seed (e.g.: BIP39 checksum failed) but will let the user proceed to create the wallet.

Since it's possible to proceed and create a wallet and the words are posted in public, it's highly likely that someone or the owner funded it a few days ago.

And it's not the "correct" wallet, it's created with a different master private key which is derived from a different arrangement of those words.
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Quote from: Maverick Zeng on June 23, 2025, 03:46:50 AM
When attempting to import this incorrectly ordered mnemonic into various mainstream wallets like Trust Wallet, MetaMask, and SafePal, they all correctly displayed "Invalid Mnemonic."
But then, astonishingly, upon importing this very same "incorrectly ordered mnemonic" into Electrum Wallet under the BIP-39 format option, it succeeded! And what emerged was a completely new, active Bitcoin wallet with recent transaction history from just a few days ago!
-snip-
I hope someone can shed light on my confusion and curiosity. Many thanks!
It's rather simple: Electrum doesn't prevent the user to create a wallet from an invalid BIP39 seed phrase.
It will only show a warning below the seed (e.g.: BIP39 checksum failed) but will let the user proceed to create the wallet.

Since it's possible to proceed and create a wallet and the words are posted in public, it's highly likely that someone or the owner funded it a few days ago.
Original archived Re: Electrum: BIP-39 SHOCK: Disordered Mnemonic Unlocks LIVE Bitcoin Wallet
Scraped on 23/06/2025, 05:45:41 UTC
Quote from: Maverick Zeng on June 23, 2025, 03:46:50 AM
When attempting to import this incorrectly ordered mnemonic into various mainstream wallets like Trust Wallet, MetaMask, and SafePal, they all correctly displayed "Invalid Mnemonic."
But then, astonishingly, upon importing this very same "incorrectly ordered mnemonic" into Electrum Wallet under the BIP-39 format option, it succeeded! And what emerged was a completely new, active Bitcoin wallet with recent transaction history from just a few days ago!
-snip-
I hope someone can shed light on my confusion and curiosity. Many thanks!
It's rather simple: Electrum doesn't prevent the user to create a wallet from an invalid BIP39 seed phrase.
It will only show a warning below the seed (e.g.: BIP39 checksum failed) but will let the user proceed to create the wallet.
Since it's possible to proceed and create a wallet, it's highly likely that someone or the owner funded it a few days ago.