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fluffyponyrbrunner: it's the way Electrum used to do it, here's why it does it that way: github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blame/…722/lib/old_mnemonic.py#L1657-L1658
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rbrunnerThanks for that interesting info, fluffypony. Do I understand correctly that more or less the sole purpose of this is to avoid / circumvent the patent by doing it differently?
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fluffyponyyes
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gingeropoloushrm... "Status
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gingeropolousExpired - Lifetime" patents.google.com/patent/US5892470 .
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gingeropolousis the roundabout still needed?
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fluffyponyhey good catch gingeropolous
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fluffypony
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fluffyponylooks like the 20 year period expired in 1997
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fluffyponysorry 2017
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gingeropolousyeah! sobering reminder that monero was written in 2014 eh?
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gingeropolousor wait. 2012
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gingeropolous:P
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gingeropolousi know pharma can extended patents, i wonder if there's a way in IT
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gingeropolousthough i doubt this one actually pulled in any profit. since 1997, i can say the only time I've remembered a long number via word string is with monero
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fluffyponyit's marked as expired on USPTO
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fluffyponyso near as I can tell it's done
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fluffyponyforwarded to Tari Labs GC for confirmation
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rbrunnerMaybe this will play a role for us if we do switch to 14-word seeds. Don't know whether Tevador's proof-of-concept currently does something similarly complicated or not.
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sarangWeekly #monero-research-lab meeting begins in about 5 minutes