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After a small amount of Googling I've found that a "self-custody" wallet app could provide enough user friendliness. What are some good wallets that allow expor
by lifeinthevoid 4y ago
After a small amount of Googling I've found that a "self-custody" wallet app could provide enough user friendliness. What are some good wallets that allow exporting the private key? e.g. The Coinbase wallet app provides a recovery phrase to recover the private keys through the app, but what happens when the Coinbase app stops working? Ideally a wallet should provide an option to export the raw key (with all of the consequences of course ...)
- seaal 4y agoYou might need multiple self-custody’s wallets depending on what tokens you’re holding. The Coinbase recovery phrase you mention is a seed phrase that you can enter in any ETH compatible wallet, the seed phrase lets you easily recover all the wallets generated by the phrase. A private key will only recover the singular wallet that it’s connected to.
- lifeinthevoid 4y agoGood to know, is this based on some standard i.e. can I generate the key-pairs myself based on the seed phrase?
- seaal 4y agoDidn't catch your reply. With the Ethers.js library it is trivial [1] to generate key-pairs from a mnemonic phrase. You might be interested in vanity address generator [2]. The Brave Wallet GitHub Wiki [3] has a write up with good links for further research. [1] https://docs.ethers.io/v5/api/signer/#Wallet.fromMnemonic https://docs.ethers.io/v5/api/signer/#Wallet.fromMnemonic [2] https://github.com/bokub/vanity-eth https://github.com/bokub/vanity-eth [3] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Brave-Wallet-Seed-Wiki https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Brave-Wallet-See...