npub1uz…7y7g3 on Nostr: Dad: Son, what does m/44'|48'|84'/0'/0' mean? Son: Hi Dad, It's a "derivation path" ...
Dad: Son, what does m/44'|48'|84'/0'/0' mean?
Son: Hi Dad,
It's a "derivation path" and it describes how your Hierarchical Deterministic (HD) wallet derive a specific key within a tree of keys.
For example, if you want to get the next address from a wallet, it just increases the last number by one.
Dad: So this means that all receiving addresses are already known when the wallet is created?
Son: All receiving addresses, all change addresses, all accounts and much more are known from the beginning. Everything is derived from your 12 or 24 seed words using a derivation path.
#Bitcoin
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2026-10-02 04:56:29 UTCEvent JSON
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