Closed mflaxman closed 4 years ago
Naming is hard, especially when you are anticipating multiple pivots. Or none, we don't know much about the future :)
This project started with the main focus on general generation of true randomness, but is now shifting over more to being a specialized tool for one particular use case. Which is good; It's easier to get quality feedback for a very narrow scenario and it can grow from there.
Personally I'm not at all against a name change, but I think we could wait a little bit to see in which direction the project will go in the coming weeks. In the meantime, we could instead improve the description/instructions on the page, to make it clear what the exact purpose of this tool is.
Closing since the project now is moving away from being an Electrum helper specifically. The SeedPicker name is not perfect, but it is (a bit) more established now.
There are other derivation schemes that future multisig tools may use, and the derivation path with SLIP132 is a uniquely Electrum implementation. It's currently the leading standard for multi hardware wallet multisig, but that's probably because it's the only decent GUI for sovereign end-users. With HWI and several multisig companies using their own scheme, I wouldn't be surprised if there are more future standards.
Another option would be to add support for advanced users to toggle every option: let users generate their own derivation path, pick their own SLIP-132 version bytes (p2sh, ps2h-wrapped segwit, p2wsh), pick their network (mainnet/testnet), etc. To me that would be a very cool for advanced users, but is less useful for 99% of normal users who are more likely to be confused and make a mistake.