Glossary

Plain-language definitions of SEO terms used across the blog.

Derivation path

The route through a wallet's key tree (e.g. m/84'/0'/0'/0/0) that decides which address a seed phrase produces — and why one phrase yields many addresses.

BIP39

The Bitcoin Improvement Proposal that defines mnemonic seed phrases — the 2048-word list, the checksum, and how words become a wallet seed.

Seed phrase

A list of 12–24 words that encodes the master secret of a self-custody crypto wallet, used to back up and restore all of its accounts.