Most wallets do let you choose if you generate the key outside of the wallet with your own entropy.
Within the wallet you would be selecting restore
existing, rather than create new.
Every bitcoin wallet that will ever be used already exists, it just needs to be discovered.
Brisket
npub1jm…p6xcq
2023-03-15 05:05:49
in reply to nevent1q…j0v5
Author Public Key
npub1jmy8weweqzckna0amz7pn0uhhkxx693l7st23829ewmu43yvjsesfp6xcqPublished at
2023-03-15 05:05:49Event JSON
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