merland / seedpicker

Create your own BIP39 seed phrase, securely and transparently.
http://seedpicker.net
MIT License
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Rename to something like "electrum multisig seed generator"? #15

Closed mflaxman closed 4 years ago

mflaxman commented 4 years ago

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.

merland commented 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.

merland commented 4 years ago

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.