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iancoleman / bip39

A web tool for converting BIP39 mnemonic codes
https://iancoleman.io/bip39/
MIT License
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Easily add new coins for newbies #400

Open spyhandler opened 4 years ago

spyhandler commented 4 years ago

Hello there.

I first would like to thank to Ian for making things a bit easier for everyone, who takes security a bit more serious.

I tend to think I have a knowledge of cryptocurrencies probably above your average Joe and many people in the space, yet I am not too much into the technicalities. Yet, when it comes to security, I am probably too much into it.

I love the standalone tool, and it has a lot of coins and derivation paths built in. However, there are so many new projects coming. One of them has chrome app, that lets you generate many addresses from the seed. However, all other wallets supporting that project use by default the first one only.

I know my way around the standalone tool (I do use it offline, i have generated a new seed to experiment with), but I cannot export the private keys of the addresses. I know the derivation path - m/44'/313/0/0/0 and BIP39 should be applicable. It is a standard deterministic thing, as of my understanding.

Now. I played a lot with the tool (both off and online). The project (ZIL) has shifted to a new format (their addresses have been formated to zil1 now, but in the past they were following the ETH type - 0x). So I got the 0x type of addresses instead of zil1 and started experimenting. However, no luck. I have been doing this for two days now, trying different things.

I can imagine a lot of new project will face the same issue. Is there a way easy / noob friendly solution to be implemented in the tool?

I mean, I can export my ETH, BTC (legacy and segwit) private keys and all, but I couldnt figure out the ZIL one.

I have been in touch with the team of the wallet (I am afraid they might switch to supporting only the first address by default in their new app), and I and many more will be kind of locked out of our funds until a solution is present.

Ahhh, just found this : https://blog.zilliqa.com/zilliqa-migrates-to-new-address-format-bf1fa6d7e41d

I believe it makes it even more complicated, at least for me.

BR.

Valentin

iancoleman commented 4 years ago

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems ZIL is not part of this tool, right? Just trying to understand what the problem is and how it relates to this tool, which isn't clear to me.

PaulUD commented 4 years ago

@iancoleman could you please contact me via my profile regarding ZIL, thanks.