From the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 39 (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0039) (bitcoin/bips)
Mnemonic lists, basically a collection of 2048 nouns in different languages in an array.
In Bitcoin, lists like these are used to generate IDs for Wallets that humans can more easily remember than just a bunch of numbers. At Nibyou, we use the BIP-39 representation of random bytes to generate recovery passwords in human readable form (example below)
The following languages are currently supported:
| Language | Language Code |
|---|---|
| German | de_DE |
| English | en_US |
| Spanish | es_ES |
| French | fr_FR |
| Italian | it_IT |
| Japanese | ja_JP |
| Korean | ko_KP |
| Portugese | pt_PT |
| Simplified Chinese | zh_CN |
| Traditional Chinese | zh_TW |
Install the package with npm
$ npm i --save @nibyou/bip39
or with yarn
$ yarn add @nibyou/bip39
Note that the generateMnemonic() function only works in browser contexts (i.e. where window.crypto.getRandomValues() is available).
Import/Require it in you code:
const bip39 = require("@nibyou/bip39");
// or in typescript
import bip39 from "@nibyou/bip39"And finally, generate the mnemonic:
let mnemonic = bip39.generateMnemonic(bip39.LANGUAGES.de_DE, 6, '-');
// => 'zylinder-altertum-gitarre-roggen-asteroid-eiszeit'