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BIP39 has been abandoned by its authors. ThomasV moved on to use an improved version for Electrum, and SatoshiLabs made public statements that BIP39 should be English only and refuse to ACK any of the 10 or so wordlist addition pull requests. Just tell the people of your country "if you want to use Bitcoin, be sure to study English harder, or lose money." This PR is likely to never get ACKed or merged. That being said, could you explain any considerations you made, or how you created this list? Other Persian devs may want to debate on its contents. |
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Almost a year ago I have spent a significant amount of time creating the Polish word list by myself only (my thought process might be found here: https://github.com/p2w34/blog/blob/master/2019-03-25-polish-word-list-bip0039/polish-word-list-bip0039.md) |
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I personally know of at least 500BTC spread across 15 users or so that have been lost or nearly lost (I had to decipher their chicken scratch/misspelled English and find matches in the wordlist) due to the user not having strong English skills. Probably more if you count all the altcoins that use BIP39 for backups. |
Looks like "bip39-wordlists" might be better as a separate project (if there's anyone willing to maintain such a thing). |
This is the reason abovementioned WLIP (Word Lists Improvement Proposals) repo has been launched: https://github.com/p2w34/wlips |
In this pull request we add a persian wordlist for bip-0039