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Sean Bowe

Author of 2 BIPs.

• BIP 39 (seed phrase): Mnemonic code for generating deterministic keys: Deployed. Defines the recovery phrase: a list of 12 to 24 common words that encodes a wallet's master secret. Users can write the words down to back up and later restore a wallet, a format now widely used…
• BIP 199 (HTLC): Hashed Time-Locked Contract transactions: Closed. Defines the hashed time-locked contract (HTLC), a script where funds can be claimed by revealing a secret before a deadline or reclaimed by the sender afterward. HTLCs are a core building block for…