Is there a tool for converting an xpriv to 12 seed words?
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It doesn't work in that direction
Yeah, that's what I thought...
Yep, the reason being PBKDF2 explained here: https://rosenbaum.se/book/grokking-bitcoin-4.html#fig0416
Iancoleman only goes the other way apparently.
On another thought, thank god nostr doesn't have bloody derivation paths to worry about. Just nsec and npub. So clean.
"Bitcoin, why can't you be more like your little brother?!" 😆