⭐ Merited by vapourminer (1)
This thread sparked a question in my head. Imagine that you are in a situation where you need to dispose of you wallet seed backup, but it is etched on a steel plate - how would you do it? The easiest answer is likely acid, but not everyone has access to it, and depending on the steel plate, it might be even highly resistant to corrosion. Another option is to damage it mechanically - in many of these steel plate products you are supposed to etch the words, so it should be possible to erase them or render unrecognizable. But it's likely hard to do thoroughly and traces of the words could remain.
Any more ideas?
To destroy all traces, a steel plate with seedphrases must be thrown into molten metal like the model T-800 Any more ideas?
, after emptying the contents of the wallet by sending it to another.The simplest option is transferring the coins on that wallet seed phrase to a new wallet, this way even if the seed phrase is detected it will be useless to the person in its possession.
This is the simplest and most reasonable method, but not effective if you want to break the connection with the previous seed-phrase. That is, it will be better if you physically destroy the steel plate. The two options mentioned by you are the most practical ones and would be effective. I will go with the second option of mechanical damage that’s using a chisel to put in many random holes in the steel to make it unreadable for any one.
Take any available power tool (angle grinder, drill and so on - grind and drill sections of plates with seed phrases words) and use it to destroy the text, shredding it and making it impossible to reassemble the text like a puzzle. For the paranoid, I can suggest scattering the crushed parts in different locations.All this can be done with hand tools if you want to enjoy the duration of the process.