Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on February 07, 2022, 03:26:55 PM

The most important thing you have not mentioned is redundancy.

One back up is no back up at all. You need, at a minimum, two back ups, with one of those being stored off site. Writing your seed phrase on paper and storing it in the same building (almost always your home) as your hardware wallet is effectively no back up at all, since you will lose both hardware wallet and seed phrase back up with any natural disaster, fire, flood, etc. You should have your seed phrase written on two separate pieces of paper, with one of those stored in a secure location away from home, with a friend or relative, in a safe deposit box, etc. If you are uneasy with a copy of your raw seed phrase being stored away from home, then use additional security such as a passphrase or multi-sig, although these also require at least two more separate back ups.

That way it doesn't matter if your home is destroyed and you lose both your hardware wallet and your seed phrase; you can always recover from your second back up.

I would suggest rather having more backup but this could be a problem for many as storing them on various places is hard to remember and what if someone got access to it by mistake so the backup should be on the places you can easily access in the need.You are right that it should never be stored at single place like in the same building because as you siad in natural disaster it could be destroyed and you don't have the backup at all.

So many have suggested that metal plates should be engraved with the seed phrases instead of storing them on piece of paper which could handle extreme conditions of heat and other factors also whereas the paper could be destroyed easily in those circumstances.They are funds which need to be stored with proper care and this seed phrase is the key to your hardware wallets so whoever owns it is the real owner.