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Title: How to use Bitcoin Explorer (bx) for BIP39?
Post by: Bitcoin on Feb 19, 2022, 12:47 pm
How to use Bitcoin Explorer (bx) for BIP39?

Creating an HD wallet as per BIP39, adapted from O'Reilly's Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulos



  1. Generate pseudo-random number as 32 hex characters


$ bx seed > entropy



  1. Convert random number to 12-word mnemonic "sentence" for backup


$ bx hd-mnemonic < entropy > words



  • Q1 Presumably the checksumming was included?


$ bx mnemonic-decode < words



  • Q2 Why would we need to go back?



  1. Derive the root / master key, basis for BIP32 derivation of the hierarchy of keys


$ bx hd-new < entropy > master



  • Q3 Why is the (supposedly optional) passphrase as salt left out?



  • Q4 I do not have access to run the bx tools ATM, are there detailed docs that show the --help output text?



  • Q5 Finally, is bx the canonical CLI tool for air-gapped tasks like creating new BIP39/BIP32 wallets, hashing / encoding different formats etc? I get a bit confused using the GUI / JS tools.




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