Educational Byte: Can Someone Guess Your Crypto Seed Phrase?
All your savings in a paper with only 12 to 24 random words: those are your private keys or seed phrase. Those words are the single thing in the world that will give you access to your cryptocurrencies. Nothing and no one else. So, couldn’t someone, anyone, just… guess which words are? Your wallet isn’t the only one that exists, after all. There must be tons of seed phrases around.
If someone with a lot of free time starts to just guess random words to recover random wallets, would they eventually succeed? Well, if they’re immortal beings with nothing else to do but wait until the end of the universe, maybe. Let’s see how this works.
How Seed Phrases Work
They do seem simple, but seed phrases are just a tool to make our lives easier as average crypto users. You see, most crypto wallets use the BIP-39standard to...
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