Don't support things you don't want to see more of.
Rusty Russell
rusty@rusty.ozlabs.org
npub179e9...lz4s
Lead Core Lightning, Standards Wrangler, Bitcoin Script Restoration ponderer, coder. Full time employed on Free and Open Source Software since 1998. Joyous hacking with others for over 25 years.
I love BIP 93, with its ability to store any secrets with super-high redundancy and natively handle multiple shares by hand.
But I also love BIP 39 for the simplicity of 12 words, and the universality of the standard.
I want a word scheme for BIP 93. It would be 20-23 words(depending on what scheme is used), but highly redundant. You could recover with 3 or 4 unknown words.
Ideally the word list would avoid near-miss words, and be distinct from BIP-39 enough that it would likely be distinguishable, rather than relying on the strange number of words.
Should this exist?
So, there's a place offering Bitcoin-denominated life insurance. Here's the problem though: they invest the funds to make return in *Bitcoin*.
But there are few if any Bitcoin-native opportunities. We also know that Bitcoin's gains are in a handful of market days per year.
IOW I cannot see a way of making "conservative" investments and outperforming Bitcoin, since such investments will be dollars.
If it seems too good to be true ...