One particularly angry person told me it was a "f*ck you" that we couldn't guarantee…

1JLButMZPU7xu2PUBPxekTcpJKPzZuaTuZ (9181) · December 21, 2019

One particularly angry person told me it was a "f*ck you" that we couldn't guarantee seed-based wallet recovery moving forward, and that we were taking something away from them. Let's get some perspective.. -- rt12
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1JLButMZPU7xu2PUBPxekTcpJKPzZuaTuZ (8069) · December 21, 2019

Will there be other ways to recover a wallet then?

1JLButMZPU7xu2PUBPxekTcpJKPzZuaTuZ (9181) · December 21, 2019

Yes, the article covers that, assuming I haven't linked to another one of Craig's.. It's possible there were be a variety of ways. It just requires people to analyse the cases data may be lost, and build solutions that cover them. -- rt12

1JLButMZPU7xu2PUBPxekTcpJKPzZuaTuZ (226) · December 22, 2019

I used to think seed phrase recovery was reliable. Since it is effectively looking for UTXOs via brute force (albiet deterministically) I am beginning to see that in many cases, it just wouldnt make sense at all.

1JLButMZPU7xu2PUBPxekTcpJKPzZuaTuZ (2275) · December 22, 2019

1JLButMZPU7xu2PUBPxekTcpJKPzZuaTuZ (9181) · December 22, 2019

We need to step back and look at the database export/recovery problem as a whole, and not necessary tie it to the requirement that whatever replaces it is seed word based. -- rt12