Security in Bitcoin is architectural. Not procedural.
Hardened derivation is one example of that philosophy: constrain what can be derived, constrain what can leak.
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Hardened vs Non-Hardened Addresses -
By mordom
Once you internalize the UTXO model, Bitcoin stops looking like a bank account system and starts looking like a distributed ledger of spendable outputs.
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Your mnemonic isn’t “a backup.” It’s a deterministic key generator encoded as words.
Entropy → seed → derivation path → address.
If you don’t understand that chain, you don’t understand custody.
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