Which begs the obvious question: is it possible to squeeze the entire BIP 39 English dictionary on a single sheet of paper?
Yes! Though if you want it to be readable you have print it on an A3 (11×17) paper. Here’s a thumbnail:
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Printouts like this have proven to be powerful props when we’re explaining the notion of wallets and seed phrases to the crypto-curious. Holding every possible private key in your hands somehow makes the complex concepts behind wallets and seed phrases more relatable. Which is critical if you’re your trying get Beyond Chainsplaining.
This then sparks a conversation that helps your audience understand why Seed Phrases are important. Sometimes we can almost see folks make the subtle-yet-supremely-gratifying internal shift from “I’m in way over my head” to “I think I can do this.”
As your conversation progresses, your audience may ask a version of: “So this all fits on as single sheet of paper… shouldn’t every have been hacked by now?”
That’s a great question. As it turns out, the odds of guessing a private key are really slim. Really really slim. For all intents and purposes impossibly slim.
Curious to learn just how slim? Stay tuned for our next post in our Beyond Chainsplaining series. We’ll have some fun exploring Power Laws and the relative probability of guessing a private key. With props!
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Published at Thu, 16 May 2019 16:53:06 +0000
