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iancoleman / bip39

A web tool for converting BIP39 mnemonic codes
https://iancoleman.io/bip39/
MIT License
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Adding Tether family to the list #609

Open amirkbrpr opened 2 years ago

amirkbrpr commented 2 years ago

I need to extract the private key of my Gold Tether (XAUT) wallet from a recovery phrase, so may I know if it could be possible to add the Tether family to the coin list?

wigy-opensource-developer commented 2 years ago

For the first sight XAUT seems to be a token on the ETH chain. But the website says you have to have an account on their system for KYC purposes. What wallet are you using and why would such a centralized bank-like entity not help you getting to your assets?

amirkbrpr commented 2 years ago

My wallet is Trust Wallet. They provide only a recovery phrase for any account. I would like to use Tether and Gold Tether and extract their private keys.

wigy-opensource-developer commented 2 years ago

Trust Wallet uses standard BIP44 derivation for its addresses. So most probably you can choose ETH as a coin and you will see the same addresses generated as in your wallet. I strongly suggest you to download bip39-standalone.html from https://github.com/iancoleman/bip39/releases/latest and enter your recovery phrase on an offline machine that you can wipe before it gets online again. And know that whoever gets that private key controls all your tokens on that address, so think twice why you need to extract that private key from your wallet.

amirkbrpr commented 2 years ago

Yes, I found the private key. Thank you so much for your help.