M0053 on Nostr: Calling the 12th (or 24th) word in your mnemonic seed"the checksum" is technically ...
Calling the 12th (or 24th) word in your mnemonic seed"the checksum" is technically incorrect. It also contains 3 (or 7) bits of your base entropy. The checksum is only the remaining 8 (or 4) bits.
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2026-08-13 18:31:08 UTCEvent JSON
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