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Bitcoin Forum / Secure BIP 39 seed generation
« on: April 24, 2025, 04:04:00 PM »
I'd like to discuss safest ways to generate BIP 39 seed words for BTC wallet.
My first self- generated BTC legacy wallet was generated trough bitaddress on probably not safest way. I just disconnected computer from internet and generated private address trough webpage. This was years ago, so there are much safer ways now.
The safest way I know now is to generate seed from Tails OS that is run on the USB stick, so it has no contact to hard drive. Tails has Electrum wallet by default, so you don't need to connect your computer to Internet. The problem is that as far as I know Electrum seed is not BIP 39 compatible and I'd like to have BIP 39 compatible wallet to have more flexibility of wallet reconstruction - to have possiblity to regenerate wallet on more than one software.
Has anyone any suggestions or other methods for secure seed word creation?
My first self- generated BTC legacy wallet was generated trough bitaddress on probably not safest way. I just disconnected computer from internet and generated private address trough webpage. This was years ago, so there are much safer ways now.
The safest way I know now is to generate seed from Tails OS that is run on the USB stick, so it has no contact to hard drive. Tails has Electrum wallet by default, so you don't need to connect your computer to Internet. The problem is that as far as I know Electrum seed is not BIP 39 compatible and I'd like to have BIP 39 compatible wallet to have more flexibility of wallet reconstruction - to have possiblity to regenerate wallet on more than one software.
Has anyone any suggestions or other methods for secure seed word creation?