Quote from: terrific on March 19, 2025, 08:14:52 PM

I cannot blame them if that is their first time to keep their private keys or seeds into that type of cloud storage. I was an idiot also before.
But after realizing and reading the older folks that have been into this industry, it made me realize that I've been doing it wrongly.
These people will realize the mistake that they have been doing for how long and then they'll turn themselves in and admit the fault.
While doing that so, they'll do the same thing now as what we do and will keep their seeds into a better place offline.

Dude, I did this too when I was newbie, but then I realized that it isn't safe.

I know some people that I taught how to use bitcoin wallets, and the first thing they did was take a screenshot/picture of the seedphrase they wrote down and send it to Google Photos. I warn them that this is not a good practice and ask them how they can sleep without having to worry about it, but it's useless, some people only take initiative when shit happens.

Quote from: Powerjumboo on March 19, 2025, 11:07:31 PM

When I was creating my wallet, it automatically came to my device to save the wallet seed to Google Drive, but I did not save my wallet seed there, I used a notebook to manually save my wallet seed. I have never considered Google Drive to be safe for my wallet. However, the fact that I have saved my wallet seed in a notebook is not very safe for me because until I can give maximum security to my notebook. However, I have kept the wallet seed that I have written very safely, I think no one can see it there.

Now I'm curious, witch wallet is this that asks to save the seedphrase on Gdrive? Is it sent encrypted to google drive at least?

There are some wallets that offer encrypted backups in the user's cloud accounts, such as their iCloud account, etc. But it's sent encrypted with the passphrase that the user defines in the app. In this case, it's important to write down the passphrase in a safe place such as an offline password manager (keepass) or written down on a piece of paper, the important thing is to never forget it.

Despite the extra backup that some wallets offer that are encrypted and the user can send anywhere (removable media such as pen drives and microSD cards or even to the cloud), it's always recommended to write down the seedphrase on paper in a safe place.