Bitcoin Q&A: Threshold Signatures and Shamir Secret Sharing
Channel: aantonop
Date: 2019-09-19

What are keyless, seedless threshold signatures? Does it have advantages over multi-signature schemes? What are the best practices for key storage by organizations? What is SLIP-39? How do I turn a BIP-39 recovery seed into K-of-N Shamir sharing scheme?

Chapters
0:00 What are keyless, seedless threshold signatures? 
6:17 What are the best practices for key storage by organizations?
11:41 How do I turn a BIP-39 recovery seed into K-of-N Shamir sharing scheme?

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