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I bought some IOTA a while ago and after doing a Google search on how to generate a wallet seed, it sent me to iotaseed.io. Thankfully though I didn't feel comf
by jondubois 9y ago
I bought some IOTA a while ago and after doing a Google search on how to generate a wallet seed, it sent me to iotaseed.io. Thankfully though I didn't feel comfortable about a third party website potentially knowing my seed (which cannot be changed later) so I searched for alternatives and found a simple Linux command to do it. That probably saved me some money.
It's still surprising that it was a fraud, it looked like a legit website. It seems almost too blatant a crime given that the Github repo, IPs and the domain name of the site can probably be traced to someone.
- Aardwolf 9y agoWhat was the command? Did you have to run IOTA software from github to run it or did the command only use things like openssl etc...?
- jondubois 9y agoI can't remember the command. I think it was a native Linux command - Not related to IOTA.
- Reimersholme 9y agoMost likely Method3 mentioned here; https://helloiota.com/generate-seed.html https://helloiota.com/generate-seed.html