This article was a passion project of mine as it's something I've long wanted to answer, and surprisingly seems to have no one-stop resource out there.
Let's make 12 word seed phrases the standard across the Bitcoin ecosystem!
Would love to hear y'all's thoughts on this one as it's a pretty divisive topic sometimes, but hopefully this can put things to rest and help simplify people's Bitcoin journey a bit by reducing the size of the secret they have to store.
Steel stampers everywhere will be happy 😅
A huge shoutout to my friend Luke Parker, a brilliant developer and cryptographer, for providing amazing cryptography feedback for me throughout.
Couldn't have done it nearly as well without him, and he always keeps me humble and makes me want to keep learning!
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