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A 13 or 25 word phrase used to backup a monero account, available in a number of languages. This 25-word phrase (13 words in the case of MyMonero) has all the information needed to view and spend funds from a Monero account.

In the official wallet, the mnemonic seed comprises 25 words with the last word being used as a checksum. Those words correspond to a 256-bit integer, which is the account's private spend key. The private view key is derived by hashing the private spend key with Keccak-256, producing a second 256-bit integer. The corresponding public keys are then derived from the private keys.

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Will Monero mnemonic seeds need to be converted to BIP 39 for standardization reasons?

According to this answer it was suggested that Monero will likely eventually need convert Electrum Wallet compliant mnemonic seeds to BIP 39 compliant mnemonic seeds for compatibility/integration reasons. Are there any currently efforts to replicate…
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What are Electrum's mnemonic seeds?

I've read on wiki that Monero implemented Electrum's mnemonic seeds. What are these and what is the differences between other most common seeds?
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How to create a wallet from my own seed?

I have my own diceware-based mnemonic seed which does not follow 25 word electrum-style rule. For other coins I have used services like walletgenerator.net to generate wallet keys. Is it possible to create deterministic wallet for Monero with own…
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Can you choose the mnemonic seed to create a wallet?

To recover a wallet, all it requires is your 25 word recovery seed. I was wondering if you can create a wallet by selecting these 25 words yourself and going from there. This would be cool because then people could pick more easily memorize their…
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Are 12 word wallet seeds safe?

I understand 12 word seeds mean there is 128 bits of 'security' but what does that mean? Would i need to worry about this being brute forced? If it was brute forced would having to scan the blockchain for every attempt not make that impossible/take…
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Mnemonic seed creation in "pseudo code"

I would like to know exactly what is going on behind the process of creating the mnemonic seed from the string of bits. For example I don't understand why in the vocabulary is only around 1624 words, I would expects full 11 bit scope (I suppose that…
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How do I check balance on my offline wallet while I did not assign any transaction ID?

I generated adresses at moneroaddress.org and sent to them my funds from Poloniex. I have installed Monero Gui Beta 1 and when I import wallets with seed frases I see no funds at all. How do I solve it?
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How to generate mnemonics from a random number?

How do I generate 25/13 mnemonics from a random number? I know how to generate Bitcoin style mnemonics with BIP39 (https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki). However, Monero seems not using BIP-39 convention... Is there any…
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Use bip39 mnemonic to generate monero keys

Is it possible to use bip39 mnemonic used in btc/eth etc and generate monero keys ? If not possible is it possible to generate a monero compatible mnemonic deterministically from bip39 mnemonics ?
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Balance not showing

I wanted to have 2 xmr address's so I went to open my wallet w pw and pushed cancel and created new wallet. I read that there was a switch wallet button under settings. I don't see that so I said ok np I'll restore my wallet from seed. I entered the…
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How does the seed offset passphrase affect entropy?

I figure that a portion of the random space has to be sacrificed for including an additional passphrase chosen by the user. How much lower is the random space and does the length of the passphrase affect how much randomness is lost?
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Is it possible to change the mnemonic seed of a monero wallet?

I was just wondering it was possible to change the mnemonic seed of a monero wallet?
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ELECTRUM STYLE WORD LIST FAILED VERIFICATION

I am having a problem gaining access to monero wallet via ledger x It will not accept the password so I have tried to restore from seed and the get this message ELECTRUM STYLE WORD LIST FAILED VERIFICATION any help greatly appreciated
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Lost Monero Coins but have seed words

Back early 2018 I installed monero full node with intention to learn to mine, then actually purchased 7 coins. I wrote down the 25 words, but was too smart for my own good with the other passkey info. I wrote it in a way that I have info, but I…
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How function bytes_to_words() works?

Here are codes in function bytes_to_words(): w[0] = SWAP32LE(*(const uint32_t*)(src + (i * 4))); w[1] = w[0] % word_list_length; ... words += word_list[w[1]]; Then I try a case whose mnemonics are: gesture mouth bids aglow tudor bawled insult…
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