KeithMukai on Nostr: The SeedQR formats are seeing some pretty good adoption across the bitcoin ecosystem ...
The SeedQR formats are seeing some pretty good adoption across the bitcoin ecosystem (e.g. Sparrow can directly read them and turn them into a hot wallet, if need be). Plus the format is well documented; the "Standard" SeedQR could even be decoded by hand if you just scan it with a cell phone that'll read out the digit stream. The "Compact" format is a little harder for humans to work with.
The actual English words would bump the QRs up to the next size or two since words take up more data space than digits. If you export a test seed as Compact SeedQR, Standard SeedQR, and if you just paste the full mnemonic into a generic QR encoder, you'll see what I mean when you compare the three QRs.
And with SeedQRs size matters since the point is to mark them by hand. A Compact SeedQR for a 12-word mnemonic is just 21x21. Takes like 5 minutes to with a Sharpie. But a 24-word Standard SeedQR is 29x29. Huge difference. That takes more like 20+ minutes to transcribe. Not fun.
The actual English words would bump the QRs up to the next size or two since words take up more data space than digits. If you export a test seed as Compact SeedQR, Standard SeedQR, and if you just paste the full mnemonic into a generic QR encoder, you'll see what I mean when you compare the three QRs.
And with SeedQRs size matters since the point is to mark them by hand. A Compact SeedQR for a 12-word mnemonic is just 21x21. Takes like 5 minutes to with a Sharpie. But a 24-word Standard SeedQR is 29x29. Huge difference. That takes more like 20+ minutes to transcribe. Not fun.