Where do you store your seed?

[isaac_clarke22]

Well for me back then, I was really like careless so I just typed my seed into a random notepad before I reformatted by hard drive due to some incident that happened with my machine back then.
Good thing that my funds aren't in my Electrum that time because that would like cost me $200 in BTC.

[Somner]

I keep my wallet on hdd, and the seed phrase on a piece of paper in the safe

[masphie]

Depending on the conditions of the environment in which you live and your own wealth. For me, because the environment where I live is not so many people who understand cryptocurrency, I only keep it in one place but I multiply it into several pieces.

[btc78]

I wrote my Seeds in 3 different papers, divided all of them into 3 equal parts and I gave the first part to my Wife, then the second part to my Eldest and the last part is mine..

though my part seats into under my bed and will only be opened when there is an emergency or when i passed away earlier.

so they will combined all the seeds to claim all my holdings for their future.

[Matrix.Max]

personally want to reply
it's a secret and don't want to discuss publically.

[raidarksword]

Basically i have both soft and hard copies on my seeds that serves as a back up copies if anything gone wrong, better to have back up rather than be sorry in the end. To make sure it's safe, I put it in a safe place that only I will know that secret place and I also put copies on my email with secured password of course like zip compression with password as extended protection.

[KaliLinux]

For now I basically do this two ways like what you just explained here,

Basically i have both soft and hard copies on my seeds that serves as a back up copies if anything gone wrong, better to have back up rather than be sorry in the end. To make sure it's safe, I put it in a safe place that only I will know that secret place and I also put copies on my email with secured password of course like zip compression with password as extended protection.

I have my seed written down in two different paper and have both of them stored in different locations that I still can easily access and I also have then saved in multiple external drive which I keep one with me and the other to a trusted family but I never have to save any online whether in email or cloud.

[jerry0]

Do most of you put an extra word to it like the 25th word/passphrase to it?


If so, do you keep it in the same location?


What about your seed in two safe deposit boxes at two different banks... and your passphrase at your apartment/house or even saving it to a password manager?  I mean if you get hacked on password manager, they only have your passphrase.

I store my seeds of wallets in different Note books.Storing seeds in online places is very risky and unsafe. Few weeks back  My friend got hacked his wallet because he stored seeds in google drive and lost  his all tokens.

Did he encrypt it or were his documents just out in the open?  I heard if you encrypt it in google drive, its generally safe.

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[ILuckyGuyI]

I store the seeds of my wallets in somewhere safe where I only can reach. And I don't put them in a place that I can forget easily. Because we know that there have been many people who have forgotten the private info of their wallets and can't reach due to it.

[Alucard1]

I also have my seeds written on paper and laminated it.  Buried it underground enclosed in a waterproof capsule.  Lamination for added protection, and buried underground to be fireproof.  I also create several backups of my seeds on flash disks.  Having both digital and tangible backups also help in case an unexpected thing happens.

Wow, this is the first time I have encountered a person who really secured his seed, this would be the best way to protect our seed, buried it underground enclosed in a waterproof capsule is really secured, it won't get burnt and it won't get broken. Maybe soon if I am already holding a huge amount of money I will do the same thing as what have you done, back up is really important as well if there is unexpected things happened.

[gesdan]

the best way to store seed are storing in any places, like USB, Harddrive, and write on the paper, and at lease write on 2 / 3 papers, and placed on different place, i think it will save, if you usb broke, you still have hardisk, if usb and hardisk broken, you still have a sheet of paper. so i think its the best way to store seed

[jerry0]

I also have my seeds written on paper and laminated it.  Buried it underground enclosed in a waterproof capsule.  Lamination for added protection, and buried underground to be fireproof.  I also create several backups of my seeds on flash disks.  Having both digital and tangible backups also help in case an unexpected thing happens.

Wow, this is the first time I have encountered a person who really secured his seed, this would be the best way to protect our seed, buried it underground enclosed in a waterproof capsule is really secured, it won't get burnt and it won't get broken. Maybe soon if I am already holding a huge amount of money I will do the same thing as what have you done, back up is really important as well if there is unexpected things happened.

So basically this person puts it underground near their house right?  I got to assume their backyard?  If not, that would be bad right since what if people just go start digging the ground etc?


You say it would be fireproof, but what about earthquake or massive flood or something weird like that happening?  Of what if some weird creature is underground and start eating everything?  Im not sure that is possible with my last example but i dont think its impossible?


The backups of seed in flash disks... how does one do this?  Type it in wordpad and encrypt document with program like axcrypt?  Then also encrypt the usb as well with password?  So one needs two passwords to get in?  But if you put it i flash disk... you mean usb flash drive right?  Then don't you need to make sure your computer has zero malware/keylogger?  Since when you put it in flash drive... well you are essentially typing it on a computer though right?  Because people say never enter it in a computer ever... so isn't entering it in a flash drive the same?

[batang_bitcoin]

the best way to store seed are storing in any places, like USB, Harddrive, and write on the paper, and at lease write on 2 / 3 papers, and placed on different place, i think it will save, if you usb broke, you still have hardisk, if usb and hardisk broken, you still have a sheet of paper. so i think its the best way to store seed

Putting it on a flash drive is just the backup and as well as on the HDDs. But you're main copy should be writte on a piece of paper that's quite strong like a cardboard or any strong paper material that's long before it brokens.

I store the seeds of my wallets in somewhere safe where I only can reach. And I don't put them in a place that I can forget easily. Because we know that there have been many people who have forgotten the private info of their wallets and can't reach due to it.

Yes, put it only to a place where you mostly remember it. No need to be weird upon hiding it. As long as it's not that visible to your visitors or any people that you don't trust but you always remember that place and you're very much familiar on it, that should be fine.

[amihada]

personally want to reply
it's a secret and don't want to discuss publically.

what is told in this forum is all confidential but not a secret because people do not know who the account owner is so please give your suggestions here we are only discussing.

[Chikito]

So basically this person puts it underground near their house right?  I got to assume their backyard?  If not, that would be bad right since what if people just go start digging the ground etc?

So far, If he doesn't tell anyone, I assume that should be safe. but your analysis looks like a detective (their backyard). On my analysis, it should be the place under the floor tiles?

You say it would be fireproof, but what about earthquake or massive flood or something weird like that happening?  Of what if some weird creature is underground and start eating everything?  Im not sure that is possible with my last example but i dont think its impossible?

You just say sometimes for the weakness of methodes, it's good to add more security like capsule below,

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[Kong Hey Pakboy]

the best way to store seed are storing in any places, like USB, Harddrive, and write on the paper, and at lease write on 2 / 3 papers, and placed on different place, i think it will save, if you usb broke, you still have hardisk, if usb and hardisk broken, you still have a sheet of paper. so i think its the best way to store seed

I do have mine written on a piece of paper and I have it fitted on my wallet that is on my clothing drawer, that leather wallet isn't used outside of my house so it is pretty safe in that place and I don't think that someone who doesn't know a thing about those seed is probably going to throw it away thinking that I am weird for storing a strange paper with gibberish phrases.

[Fredomago]

the best way to store seed are storing in any places, like USB, Harddrive, and write on the paper, and at lease write on 2 / 3 papers, and placed on different place, i think it will save, if you usb broke, you still have hardisk, if usb and hardisk broken, you still have a sheet of paper. so i think its the best way to store seed

I do have mine written on a piece of paper and I have it fitted on my wallet that is on my clothing drawer, that leather wallet isn't used outside of my house so it is pretty safe in that place and I don't think that someone who doesn't know a thing about those seed is probably going to throw it away thinking that I am weird for storing a strange paper with gibberish phrases.

For someone who doesn't know anything about crypto or don't have any idea about this industry, sure deal that they won't get any interest about that even they've seen it inside your safe wallet.

The fact that they don't know what it is and why you need to keep it there, some questions though will linger in their minds if what the importance of those notes.

A combo of letters and numbers and being save inside your safe personal wallet, safe as long as it's away from someone who have
knowledge about this field.

[Momoamzad]

As I always try to write down on my diary and already save into my drive . This is help to get my seed quickly. I also save on my sheet on laptop. So I use several ways to save the seeds so that I could find it at any time

[giantrobot]

I also have my seeds written on paper and laminated it.  Buried it underground enclosed in a waterproof capsule.  Lamination for added protection, and buried underground to be fireproof.  I also create several backups of my seeds on flash disks.  Having both digital and tangible backups also help in case an unexpected thing happens.

I find you to be very careful how you store your seeds. Especially storing too digital backups. It is much safer and easier to check than it is to write down paper or bury it underground, as many people do. It avoids the destruction of time and other objective factors.

[Momoamzad]

As I always try to write down on my diary and already save into my drive . This is help to get my seed quickly. I also save on my sheet on laptop. So I use several ways to save the seeds so that I could find it at any time