Also covering BIP32 and HD wallets

HD key generation as specified in BIP32 allows securely creating an unlimited number of keypairs from a seed as small as 128 bits. A wallet may also create extended pubkeys (xpubs) that allow external software to create new pubkeys for the wallet without learning the corresponding private keys.

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