Does it support mnemonic phrase?

almindor / etherwall

Ethereum QT5 Wallet

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Does it support mnemonic phrase? #131

Closed R8s6 closed 3 years ago

R8s6 commented 3 years ago

Is this something "good to have"?

If so, could it be implemented?

Thanks!

almindor commented 3 years ago

Hey, currently no. Etherwall was built in the really early days and uses geth directly for account management. I'll have to check if geth itself added support for this or implement it on the side, but it changes the logic quite a bit on the UI end so it wouldn't be a trivial change.

almindor commented 3 years ago

As a side note if you use TREZOR hardware wallet you get HD address generation. That is supported right now.

R8s6 commented 3 years ago

Thanks.

After a bit of search, according to this article, keystore and mnemonic phrase are 2 different ways to unlock private key, so I guess since we have keystore, it's not necessary to have a mnemonic phrase:

Case closed, thanks.