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Board Electrum
Re: Noob questions about Electrum
by
goldkingcoiner
on 04/11/2021, 14:41:07 UTC
Hello all.
Please answer some questions about the Electrum
Look, here the program, when creating a new wallet, gave me 12 unique words.
In the future, if I enter 11 words, and I sort through 12 words manually, will I be able to get to another wallet?
Or will some kind of protection work and I can't just go further?

Thanks.

Those "12 words" that you have are for accessing your wallet, in case you cannot access it normally by your regular way. DO NOT show anyone these 12 words... If you do, you then that person will be able to steal your bitcoin.

As the previous poster mentioned, a single word can easily be found out by a hacking method called "brute force". Thats when a computer program randomly tries different words (all the words of a dictionary) until they find the right word and can access the wallet.

Also do not store those words on a device that has internet access.

The best thing you could do is memorise the words and never tell anyone.