Post
Topic
Board Wallet software
Re: You should write two copies of your seed phrase.
by
apogio
on 19/04/2023, 15:16:47 UTC
Hear me out guys.

Paper can be really fragile, and all it takes is a tear or water spill or defacing to deny you access to your BTC forever.

So, you should make a second copy of your seed phrase that is identical to the first, and store it on a different place from the first seed so that they both cannot go down together except in extreme circumstances like a natural disaster.

Personally, I have two backups in two different locations. In each location I maintain:

2x: {
         1 piece of paper with my seed phrase written upon it, in black ink.
          I have put the paper in a plastic card sleeve.
          I have put the sleeve in a plastic zip bag.
}

So I have in total 4 backups actually, but placed in two different places.

So, 2 places guard me against physical disaster on the specific place and 2 backups in each place guard me against physical damage on a specific piece of paper (which is highly unlikely).

Thoughts:
1. I know my system is ultra redundant, but I sleep well at night.
2. I maintain paper backups, so putting 2 of the aforementioned packages in a single place, requires less space than using other possible backup media.