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Added note around localization considerations for recovery phrases
If you're writing Japanese or other languages that are very different from English, then the words in a recovery phrase will look pretty foreign to you. Muun has gotten this feedback and it was a reason why they were more comfortable using output descriptors. Not sure if the glossary is the right place for this, but I think it would be good to add this somewhere. Also wonder if we have any recommendations on what to do instead?
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**Technicalities** - Recovery of multisig-wallets needs both the extended public key and the recovery phrase of all participating keys as well as the master key fingerprint as defined by BIP32 concatenated with the derivation path of the public key. The derivation path is represented as 32-bit little endian unsigned integer indexes concatenated with each other. The number of 32 bit unsigned integer indexes must match the depth provided in the extended public key.
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**Language considerations** - The recovery phrase consists of English-language words, which may not be intuitive to recognize, remember, or write for many users around the world. If this applies to your user base, it may be more appropriate to use [output descriptors]({{ '/guide/glossary/#output-script-descriptor' | relative_url }}) or other techniques.
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### Simplified payment verification (SPV)
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It is possible to verify bitcoin payments without running a full network node. This is called simplified payment verification, or SPV. A user’s bitcoin spv wallet only needs a copy of the block headers of the longest chain, which are available by querying network nodes until it is apparent that the longest chain has been obtained. SPV lets you validate your transactions without having to worry about anybody else’s transactions. It ensures your transactions are in a block, and it provides confirmations that additional blocks are being added to the chain. An SPV wallet is a type of bitcoin wallet that works this way.

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