{"id":120627,"date":"2023-07-11T02:52:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T02:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/you-can-now-store-your-bitcoin-private-key-as-colors-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T02:52:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T02:52:58","slug":"you-can-now-store-your-bitcoin-private-key-as-colors-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/you-can-now-store-your-bitcoin-private-key-as-colors-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Now Store Your Bitcoin Private Key as Colors\n – Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Forget lists of words and alphanumeric strings: a new Bitcoin tool lets you hide the key to your coins inside a rainbow.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin developer Entero Positivo launched \u201cBIP39Colors\u201d last month, an open-source tools<\/a> that can convert one’s BIP39 mnemonic phrase into a series of colors, and vice versa.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith this method, you can convert your 12-word phrase to 8 colors (or your 24-word phrase to 16 colors),\u201d explained Positivo to decrypt<\/i> via DM. “Then you can convert your colors back to your original seed.”<\/p>\n

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BIP39 Colors translates a BIP39 mnemonic to colors and viceversa.<\/p>\n

Check out the tool :https:\/\/t.co\/IGrq8LlCXu<\/a><\/p>\n

– It obfuscates your mnemonic phrase
– You can save each color independently without any order (at home, in css files, png images, …)
– Color codes are\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/Td2sm3igVt<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Entero Positivo (@EnteroPositivo) June 25, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

BIP39 is a standard for generating one’s seed phrase, an ordered set of 12 to 24 words that contains the information necessary to create a private key, which is used to create and access one’s Bitcoin wallet.<\/p>\n

The standardization of mnemonic phrases was meant to make it easier for users to recover their crypto in case they lose their wallet device, converting their complex private key into a set of readable words.<\/p>\n

Most wallet providers<\/a> today encourages users to write their 12 words on a sheet of paper as backup, and to keep anyone else from seeing it. As Positivo explains, however, storing one’s crypto as a list of 12 words is very obvious to hackers or thieves who come across the list.<\/p>\n

Colors, by contrast, “are everywhere.” A private key could be hidden in plain sight, and a thief wouldn’t be the wiser.<\/p>\n

\u201cA paper with 12 words is more suspicious than a color palette labeled like ‘my new home wall colors,’ for example, or inside a styles.css of your [website]he said.<\/p>\n

The colors generated by the tool are expressed as a hex color code, a six-digit system that represents virtually any color as some combination of red, blue, and green. These colors can be stored across “several files,” Positivo explained, including HTML, CSS, or the color palette of a PNG.<\/p>\n

Unlike the word-based system, one need not remember the “order” of the colors to recover one’s seed: all that matters is that all colors are present. The developer believes the flexibility of this storage method could make it more difficult for governments to seize someone’s bitcoin.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can give one color to your mother, another inside your [website]another one written in a web design book… and in the future recover your seed from these agnostic colors,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udeab No, never enter your real seed in any online tool, please!<\/p>\n

– Generate random seeds with Iancoleman tool for example …
– Play with this tool
– If you consider usefull, download it and use it on a newly installed offline computer, raspberry, TailsOS, #Dtails<\/a>,
And\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Entero Positivo (@EnteroPositivo) June 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

The developer also provided instructions<\/a> for how to decode one’s BIP39 colors back into their mnemonic phrase with only a calculator, not requiring any external tool.<\/p>\n

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