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Automated BIP39 Recovery for hardware wallets

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Description

The automated BIP39 recovery feature implemented in this PR would also be useful in case of a connected hardware wallet instead of recovering from bip39 seed.

I might find the time to propose a PR for this if this is considered worthwhile and nobody else wants to, although I have no experience with qt.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the automated BIP39 recovery implementation in PR #6219 and the connected hardware-wallet integration points in Electrum's Qt interface. Determine how the existing recovery flow applies to a connected hardware wallet; done means the feature works for that case and has appropriate coverage, though no test location is named.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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