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My issue with it is that you have to be aware of what devices and desktop wallets currently implement Shamir/SLIP39. The unfortunate thing about standards is that for them to be worth a damn, they not only have to be good, but they also have to be widely adopted, which SLIP39 is not.
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localhost me/acc 10mo ago

totally true. I have not looked for it. but is there some reason devs are not using it? I feel like multisig as a topic has leveled up but Shamir seems overlooked

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Rich Nost 10mo ago

The standard came out of Trezor, I believe, and they were not able to build a consortium of HWW companies to support it.

Incidentally, it's highly confusing to be an Uncle Jim, trying to help a family member make sense of their wallet, and they present what look like 3 20-word mnemonic keyphrases, but the software wallet is P2WPKH. Fam was lucky I even knew what Shamir was.

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Rich Nost 10mo ago

I think the extreme similarities to BIP39 is what makes shamir a non-starter for me. It is just too confusing in an emergency recovery scenario to have something that LOOKS EERILY SIMILAR to something it is not.