BIP-32
wallet
BIP-32
Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 32 — the standard that defines hierarchical deterministic (HD) wallets. A single master seed derives an effectively infinite tree of private keys via a deterministic algorithm, so one backup recovers every account, address, and chain ever derived from that seed.
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