Râu Cao ⚡ on Nostr: TIL: A SLIP39 single-share backup always contains "academic" as the 3rd and 4th word, ...

TIL: A SLIP39 single-share backup always contains "academic" as the 3rd and 4th word, which encodes the backup type in the phrase.

https://trezor.io/learn/a/slip39-faqs

quoting nevent1q…q3ky

Is there a reasonable explanation for why two different hardware wallet devices (from the same purchase) would generate random seed phrases with the same word on 3rd and 4th place, while all other words change, again and again and again?

The chances for this happening once are fairly small, but 4 times in a row? 🤔