These two words are often used when someone is advising you about securing your bitcoin investment, but thinking about it, the context may be misunderstood clearly by people in different situations who nor really understand well.
I go use the two word for sentence, so we go fit understand am wella, and na-
- Keep your seed phrase private.
- keep your seed phrase secret.
Me I understand say the purpose of the two statements mean the same thing, but for different people the actual meaning dey different. Make I explain.
If you have a trusted partner, wife or husband wey two of una dey on the same motion, keeping your seed phrase a secret, fit affect una marriage unto say e go be like you nor trust them enough, so in that case, the better word na to say make dem keep am private not secret.
I don read these statements at least thrice before I got actually come up with a difference. Them similar no be small but the difference be say, one na composite of the other. Make I explain:
Private na the ultimate form of secrecy. When something Dey kept private, e mean say, another eye no ever suppose see am or know about am. Take for example, private parts. You shah know say, you no suppose allow people Dey see you naked. When you reach that stage to make am public, na you know watin you Dey do.
When it comes to secret or secrecy, something fit Dey shared amongst one or two persons or even a group of persons and then, e still remain secret via say, these persons know themselves and them don agree to not share that thing with other persons. Take for example, secret cults.
Ever since I joined this forum, I have not used these two words before while talking or posting about what is related to seed phrase. How are they important?
Letting your family or your children or your wife know or not know about your seed phrase can easily be communicated without mentioning private or secret.
This explains how conscious of the words and disciplined you must be to have purposefully abstain from using them at all and na true you talk, e get how you go arrange something way be say, others go get the message even out you making it clear.