I'm a very novice bitcoin user, so apologies for the stupid question.
I have a few wallets on my phone, each of which provided a backup seed phrase. Two questions:
1) If my phone were to explode and I needed to restore my wallet, do I need to use the same wallet? Or can a seed phrase I got from mycelium be used in electrum if I wanted?
2) Is there no risk of people just randomly entering 12 word seed phrases in the hopes or recovering an active wallet with funds in it?
Thanks!
The seed is used to restore your wallet, so yes you should use the same bitcoin wallet client, i don't have information about the electrum but for mycelium you can restore it. I tried once many times restoring random seeds and was able only once but nothing was there, but in general the chances are very very low.