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Certainly not pulling your leg. Non technical here, sorry if that was a silly question. No Nostr client has yet prompted me to make an Xpriv/pub or offered HD or mnemonic in key generation step (vs, say every Bitcoin wallet always does so). It would use useful surely (e.g. personal, company accs; backup/recovery accs; etc).
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Creediator 2y ago

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/06.md?plain=1

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Robot Lightning 2y ago

Thanks, I see the NIP. If you'll humour me, two questions. 1. Why do no clients use this? No offline seed backup, no second/third/etc accounts derived from same seed. 2. What would be the best use in practice? Would we treat Account as an account, and then use all the pub/priv keys generated underneath for some purposes of that account e.g. key rotation. Or some other use?

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Creediator 2y ago

Alby does use something called a Master which is a 12 mnemonic words which then lets you create multiple keys for different purposes like Nostr, BTC, LN etc but they need to extend it to create multiple pairs for same purposes as well which will come. Key rotation is complex for users so signing a message offline is better with one pair might be easier. Also you only need ti remember 12 or 24 master words which can restore all your accounts.