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July 03, 2014, 11:08:40 AM
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A day has 1440 minutes so you can have 256 slots of 5 minutes each and still leave 160 minutes unused.
You will assign each slot of the day a phrase like:
"Today is a beautiful day [slot 1 -> 0 am-0.05 am]".
Another one could be:
"The bear is not that pink [slot 2 -> 0.05 am -0.10 am]"

Every day you keep reinforcing your phrases. When you look at the watch you must know that the time corresponds to the phrase you have been reinforcing.
Soon you will start being sure, which phrase you use for each time of the day. You don't write it anywhere. You just use your mind.
For instance at lunchtime you know they are related to lunch you use to have, and you keep doing this kind of mental ritual of repeating in your mind the corresponding phrase for that time of the day.

Once you have the 256 phrases and know them by heart you can start using them to use private keys that follow from them.

The first one you will use could be: the first letter will be a zero if is a consonant and a one if it is a vowel. So you take just the first letter of each phrase and express your private key in binary, as you can know each of the 256 bits in sequence.

Once that address/key become compromised, for some reason, you can keep using the same mnemonic to know the next address/key to use, because you just need to know: now I am using the second letter, not the first. And so on... You can do lots of stuff like this.

Once you have a list of 256 items you can do a lot, keeping your brainwallet safe.

 

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July 03, 2014, 12:15:48 PM
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Not every has the patience to do it! We got easy ways to remember it by printing out or saving in a text file to safe disk.
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