Is It Safe to Keep a Seed Phrase in a Bank Safe Deposit Box? Keeping a seed phrase in a bank safe deposit box is not safe as your only backup. A bank box protects against burglary and house fires, but it adds risks a home backup does not have: the bank controls your access,…
If you lose 6 words of a 12-word seed phrase, your bitcoin is effectively gone. The 6 words you still have leave roughly 2^62 possible combinations, and no computer on earth can work through those in your lifetime. Your only real hope is finding the missing words or having a second backup somewhere. That is…
Paper burns at around 451 degrees Fahrenheit. A typical house fire reaches 1,100 degrees and stays hot long after the flames are out. If your 12-word seed phrase lives on paper, a house fire does not just damage your backup. It deletes your bitcoin permanently. The fix is a steel backup. Why steel is the…
