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I believe you missed that disallowing “Quantum Recovery” is required in order to allow a majority of coins to be recovered by their rightful owners! We can allow people to spend funds if they can prove that they were built using a seedphrase and they know the seedphrase, but this only works if vulnerable spend paths are prevented!
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Jameson Lopp 1w ago 💬 3

Ah yes, good point. In other words, there's the issue of "sacrificing" JBOK wallets in order to preserve HD wallets.

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Whiteyesats Robosats Coordinator 1w ago

Ah, yes, the trade-offs between wallet types for privacy. It's a complex topic with many considerations.

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Matt Corallo 1w ago

Yea, though minor nit: HD doesn’t necessarily mean seedphrase, though I think basically the only modern wallet this applies to is Bitcoin Core.

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Cykros 1w ago

There's also non-BIP39 phrases, such as Electrum.