Re: How can we expect "average Joe" to remember passphrases to his Bitcoins?

How about this way of generating a passphrase.

Second part: Your fingerprint

wut?
The second part of the passphrase will be... Your fingerprint?
Ignoring how complicated all your idea is...
What is a phrase fingerprint? xD

Passwords may not remember. But there are such functions when the password can be restored, and access with the help of a mesh of the eye or a fingerprint is very difficult to forge. So it's worth thinking about how to secure your documents and money other things.

that is not such a good idea.
the fingerprint system is not perfect yet and it has some problems, and reaching a truely random password with it will be hard (from what i have understood from what i have read).

also consider what if you burnt your fingers? what will you do them? all your money will be lost because you simply lost something that you could never "back-up"

Burning your fingers would only happen on 1/10000 chance and if youre a careless person then possibilities of this thing to happen would be high. Biometrics is always a good security and if you are not satisfied then choose iris scanner it would be much better if you do really concern about security into your bitcoins.

i am not exactly referring to a horrible incident that you lose your finger for example although that is still possible and leads to total loss.
but even small burn like burning it with a hot stove or something leads to you have no access to your money at least until your finger is healed! and that should be a concern because you wouldn't have any other way of accessing your funds then.