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BIP-39

Beginner

The standard that encodes a random seed as a sequence of 12 or 24 words drawn from a fixed 2048-word English dictionary. The mnemonic is a deterministic backup of the entire HD wallet: given the same words and passphrase (if any), you recover every private key. SSP generates one BIP-39 mnemonic per device and instructs you to store each offline and separately.