# Why we moved to BIP 44 wallets?

**URL:** <https://bisq.community/t/why-we-moved-to-bip-44-wallets/2393>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [July 3, 2017, 11:38am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/why-we-moved-to-bip-44-wallets/2393 "2017-07-03T11:38:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![ManfredKarrer](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/manfredkarrer/32/26_2.png) [@ManfredKarrer](https://bisq.community/u/ManfredKarrer)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 11:38am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/why-we-moved-to-bip-44-wallets/2393/1 "2017-07-03T11:38:42Z")

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Some people might ask why we changed the HD wallet structure in the new release.

Here is the background from the soon to be released DAO paper:  
“The Bisq application provides an integrated BSQ wallet with basic features for receiving and sending BSQ as well as a transaction history screen. The wallet is based on BIP 44 [[1](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0044.mediawiki)] and uses the registered coin type 142 [[2](https://github.com/satoshilabs/slips/blob/master/slip-0044.md)]. This provides extra protection against the risk that the BSQ wallet could be used accidentally as a BTC wallet (e.g. restoring from seed words).  
To avoid that users need to backup 2 different seed words we use the same seed for both the BSQ and the BTC wallet though they are stored in different files.”