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keychat | 3 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +5 
 We have received a lot of feedback about adding nsec support. 

Now we believe that users will assess the risks and use IDs appropriately, so we will support it later.

 Thank you for the feedback.
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Patrick | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Epic! I'm looking forward to this update! Please consider implementing support for event signers like Amber when implemented.
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Five | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Can't you just use a bip85-like solution to derive a new "deterministic" mnemonic based on the nsec? 

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0085.mediawiki

If the nsec has sufficient entropy then you can safely derive a new private key on a new hardened path and use that as entropy for a mnemonic.

Since this mnemonic is derived from the nsec, this could solve your problem I wonder?

Where am I wrong? 🤔
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Five | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The tradeoff with this ofc is having to backup an additional piece of info
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keychat | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I think it’s not easier than just supporting nsec login.
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Five | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 So if I use nsec login in keychat in the future the multi ID features simply won't be available?