How Often Do You Check Your Seed Phrase.

[SOKO-DEKE]

I understand that several thread has been created concerning the importance of keeping our seed phrase save but the question now is this, how often do you check your seed phrase?. My personal experience on why I think you should always check your seed phrase to ensure that it is in a good condition:

Yes, it is necessary to periodically verify that seed phrases remain available in the location where you stored them. It is possible for a seed phrase to be tempted no matter where it is kept, especially in the event of a natural disaster or other event. For this reason, we shouldn't give up on our seed phrases without periodically checking on them to make sure they are doing well.

Lessons( 1) Do not keep your seed phrase in a particular place

Since anything can happen, it is not a good idea to keep your seed phrase in one specific location. Instead, it is best to store your seed phrase in at least three different places for greater financial security. This way, in the unlikely event that someone loses access to the seed phrase in one location, there will always be a backup. Therefore, we must maintain our seed phrase in several, well-hidden places for optimal security.

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[Spaceman1000$]

I understand that several thread has been created concerning the importance of keeping our seed phrase save but the question now is this, how often do you check your seed phrase?. My personal experience on why I think you should always check your seed phrase to ensure that it is in a good condition: recently I relocated to another place, when I was moving my things it never occurred to me that I had mistakenly removed my seed phrase from where it was kept not until I had spent more than five months before something struck my mind to check where my seed phrase was written but I couldn't find it there. I was lucky to have kept a duplicate of it somewhere else not just in my house else I would have  ended up losing my funds to some people who understands what seed phrase is all about.

Lessons( 1) Do not keep your seed phrase in a particular place (2) Always check your seed phrase to be sure it is intact (3) Be sure you alone have access where your seed phrase is kept.

Conclusion: Knowing too well that keeping the seed phrase and other account related information of a user private are some ways to ensure adequate security, I think we need to do a constant check on our seed phrase so that we don't end up losing it.

I stand to be corrected if there are things that were not listed as this thread is based on personal encounter and observation.

My seed phrase is one of my topmost secret, though for some time now, I've tried to see if I can let it stick in my head, but it hasn't been an easy task.

Mate I can't believe you actually tried to store your seed phrase in your head that's a dangerous thing to do because you can easily forget the words that comes first before the next line. If you got no option on how to keep it safe, I suggest you write it out in Metal I believe it's going to be safe, but ensure it is not kept where one around you has access to because they can easily discover what it is by simply asking questions. Feel free to duplicate it if possible instead of having it all in your brain that's crazy thing to do you know.

Well ordinarily the brain is meant for storage,  I have it written down somewhere safe, but I've still tried to let it stick in my head.
So I usually check within two weeks or a week interval depending on how busy my schedule are for the month, over time even without me being at home where I have it written down, I could easily check with my mobile phone.

[ThemePen]

Well ordinarily the brain is meant for storage,  I have it written down somewhere safe, but I've still tried to let it stick in my head.
So I usually check within two weeks or a week interval depending on how busy my schedule are for the month, over time even without me being at home where I have it written down, I could easily check with my mobile phone.

Being a human everyone can forget my dear friend. Don't think that if you have stuck it in you mind. But you can also forget it.
This is a good thing that you check it regularly. After 2 or 3 weeks or in a month. Just because of this you keep this un mind. If accidently you forgot to recheck or you put it anywhere else like the OP done so there is the possibility that you can forget that. So you should safe the seed phrase at two different places this will be good. You can recheck one place time by time if you forget accidentally so you can check the different place you there you will get it back.
OP has shared his experience which is good and we should get a lesson from this. Thanks for sharing.

[Bitstar_coin]

All of the above points from OP sound good in theory than in reality. Seriously how can you be checking your keyphrase everytime when you are supposed to keep it in a safe and secure place?
This does not sound like a good idea in my opinion because checking it every minute and checking it monthly will not give you an indication that it has been compromise assuming someone else has been able to get access.
In all honesty, I don't think there is a particular way to care for keyphrase other than do what you deemed secure enough. Different people with different ways of storing things secretly without letting anyone know about it.

[Victorik]

I think writing your seed phrase on a sheet of paper is risky. Instead, get a note book or as diary and write them on it and keep somewhere you can easily access.
If you his it somewhere, chances are that you might even forget where you kept it.

And like you said, it is safer to have more than one copies, just in case.

[Hewlet]

To be really honest, after I copied out my seed phrase, I haven't checked it again and although I leot it in a very secured location, I have relocated fr my initial place of residence to a new place without taking it along with me. It was the day after I arrived at my location that I even noticed I did not take it along with me. Sometimes little things like this could leed us into trouble. The funny thing is that I kept it in the midst of my other document that my kid sis have access to, my fear is that they might just open the document one day and since I jur wrote it down on a piece of paper, they might mishandle it because they did not know it value. Once I travel back, I will look for a better way of saving it.

[coolcoinz]

The same actually as long as I have a hardware wallet to store bitcoins not too often reach the seed phrase maybe occasionally but it is very rare, just like that but I more often check from the secure bitcoin wallet address whether there are no transactions of any kind, when there is no change then I consider it no problem.

Maybe you store in the most secure place in the safe, I don't do that but what I do to store the seed phrase is quite more secure in my version, I even back up 4 copies in different places to make sure all copies are safe and no one touches it.

I don't even have a dedicated PC like you, no storing on a hard drive, the important thing is that the copies are safe.

Isn't storing it in too many locations counterproductive? The more copies you have in different locations the more difficult it is to monitor all of them and the more probable it becomes that one of them will fall into the wrong hands and you won't even know about it.

I've always approached it this way and in my eyes 2 copies is more than enough, since you also have an active wallet installed somewhere that already has the seed entered. So, you'd need to lose access to the wallet, then lose the main seed and the backup seed. What's the chance of that happening?

Many people have only 1 seed engraved on a metal plate or stamped on it using one of those kits available on amazon. It can't be burned or flooded, so the only thing you have to worry about is someone stealing it, but in such case you always have the main wallet that you can use to move coins before the thief makes use of your seed.

[tajimas]

I have my seed phrase stored in my mailbox and my device notepad while I checked on it once it comes to my mind to do so, I wasn't used to checking on my first seed phrase before untill I learnt my lesson from loosing my pk to a wallet consistent of assets of great worth. I don't have it written and kept with in my other files, this post just remind me of doing that just now.

This second image also explains just like the first about how it's advisable to not also write on the heading the word "Wallet Seed phrase" or the name of the wallet, while the words can be written either vertically on ascending/descending order or in a diagonal form.

I find this second image very helpful than the first one especially when writing it on paper file, it really looks confusing on figuring out either to count it horizontally or vertically.

[panganib999]

I keep it to my person as much as possible, or if in any case, I make sure to keep it in a place where I know I wouldn't lose it, for example, keeping a safety deposit box that contains your cold wallet and the seed phrase that opens it/private key is one of the best ways to keep your wallet safe, since for the most part, it keeps both your key and your wallet in a single place so there's no chance for you to actually lose it or something, and furthermore, when you move out, there's no way you'd leave your whole net worth out so of course you're going to carry it with you on important situations.

[Zanab247]

 Many people has loss a lot of money because, they failed to write down their seeds phrase which are very important to anyone that is using wallets because your wallet carry seed phrase which are your personal details you can use to have access to your money at any time. Don't save your seeds phrase in your phone because, your phone can be misplaced but it will be easy for you to recover your money with the help of the seeds phrase if they are in safe place

I always check my seed phrase once in a month to know if someone know where they are or to move them alway from children or bad friends, because once someone have access to your seeds phrase your coins is gone because the person will like to sell everything at the moment.

[The Cryptovator]

Whenever I participate in the discussion about securing wallet seed phrases, I have mentioned everywhere that we need to secure our seed phrases in multiple safe places. We may lose or destroy one somehow. For me, I don't often check since I wrote my seed phrase in a hard notebook. I just make sure the notebook is safe. But when something important needs to move a large amount, then I again make sure either my seed phrase is fine or not. On the other hand, I have been using a hardware wallet, so I do not always need to check the seed phrase. But I check it accordingly when I need it.

[Z-tight]

I have my seed phrase stored in my mailbox and my device notepad while I checked on it once it comes to my mind to do so, I wasn't used to checking on my first seed phrase before untill I learnt my lesson from loosing my pk to a wallet consistent of assets of great worth. I don't have it written and kept with in my other files, this post just remind me of doing that just now.

Sorry for your lost funds, but i am afraid that you are going to probably lose your funds again if you don't change your method of backing up your seed phrase. You should not back up your seed phrase electronically in your email, or write it in your notepad, it is trivial for an attacker to steal your funds if your email is compromised, or for you to suffer a physical attack if anyone can get your phone and access your note pad.

Write your seed phrase down on paper, or engrave it on a steel; make multiple backup's of this in different locations, this is the most recommended method of backing up your seed phrase.

[stomachgrowls]

I understand that several thread has been created concerning the importance of keeping our seed phrase save but the question now is this, how often do you check your seed phrase?. My personal experience on why I think you should always check your seed phrase to ensure that it is in a good condition: recently I relocated to another place, when I was moving my things it never occurred to me that I had mistakenly removed my seed phrase from where it was kept not until I had spent more than five months before something struck my mind to check where my seed phrase was written but I couldn't find it there. I was lucky to have kept a duplicate of it somewhere else not just in my house else I would have  ended up losing my funds to some people who understands what seed phrase is all about.

Lessons( 1) Do not keep your seed phrase in a particular place (2) Always check your seed phrase to be sure it is intact (3) Be sure you alone have access where your seed phrase is kept.

Conclusion: Knowing too well that keeping the seed phrase and other account related information of a user private are some ways to ensure adequate security, I think we need to do a constant check on our seed phrase so that we don't end up losing it.

I stand to be corrected if there are things that were not listed as this thread is based on personal encounter and observation.

Didnt really come into a point on which i would really be buying some hardware wallet for me to store up the coins that i do have on which having a flash drive with some password in it would suffice or something that would really be enough on which im placing the other 1 in my own belt bag, the other one is on safe keep in my own room and the other one is on the rooftop. Im the ones who are really that wary about on where those
flashdrives been located and just like as mentioned on which im really that too active when it comes on checking it out those sticks whether they are intact or havent lost yet. Im doing my best that it would really be
that out of reach or be that easily be noticed by someone because we know that once those things exposed then its over. I do rather sticking up with this kind of storage
rather than making myself minding or trying out cloud storage on which it is really way more risky.

So far so good, im almost 8 years on crypto space but i havent experienced nay hacks or incidents of losing coins due to exposed PK. If it does work
then it would really be just that fine that you would really be doing this or your primary option to take.

[shisotsu]

lol I just keep screen of seed in my gallery xd. But it need to know 2 passwords to get access to my gallery

[TravelMug]

I understand that several thread has been created concerning the importance of keeping our seed phrase save but the question now is this, how often do you check your seed phrase?. My personal experience on why I think you should always check your seed phrase to ensure that it is in a good condition: recently I relocated to another place, when I was moving my things it never occurred to me that I had mistakenly removed my seed phrase from where it was kept not until I had spent more than five months before something struck my mind to check where my seed phrase was written but I couldn't find it there. I was lucky to have kept a duplicate of it somewhere else not just in my house else I would have  ended up losing my funds to some people who understands what seed phrase is all about.

Lessons( 1) Do not keep your seed phrase in a particular place (2) Always check your seed phrase to be sure it is intact (3) Be sure you alone have access where your seed phrase is kept.

Conclusion: Knowing too well that keeping the seed phrase and other account related information of a user private are some ways to ensure adequate security, I think we need to do a constant check on our seed phrase so that we don't end up losing it.

I stand to be corrected if there are things that were not listed as this thread is based on personal encounter and observation.

I know I have place them in a safe place, so I don't check them that much. But what I do is that I have a practice not to memorized, but to load it in one machine and see if I can restored it in one of my pc's and then uninstall everything. At least I know that my seed phrase is correct.

Because I was not imagining that if I have a lot of bitcoin save on it, and I assumed that everything is right. And then I need to restored it, but worst is that I might have put one word wrong, then everything will be lost. So far my practice works so I know that every word or mnemonic phrase that I have written is spot on and 100%.

[CryptSafe]

Ever since I lost my previous seed phrase and wallet, I learned my lesson the hard way. I began to keep a constant check on my seed phrase so as to be sure they are where they are so that if anything happens again, I can be able to recover it easily. Actually, what happened that made me lose my wallet was a result of my phone crashing one night while online trying to download an app. All of a sudden, my phone went off, and I had not backed up my seed phrase anywhere in the meantime.I had some bitcoin in that wallet, and that was how I lost my bitcoin and wallet that night. Ever since then, what I do first after downloading and installing a new wallet app is to write my phrase or keys so as not to encounter what I had gone through again.

I think this aspect of your topic is not really taken seriously by some account holders. People do not bother checking on their seeds because they are too confident that their keys are where they have kept them for safety purposes. Possibly, if they had shifted from their initial place where they are kept, you would have no idea since you are not constantly checking on them, but if you do check on them, you would be able to detect whenever there are changes in the location of your phrase from the initial place where they are kept. So therefore, it is advisable, in your own best interest, to always backup your keys and save them where only you have access at any given point in time.

[darkangel11]

Ever since I lost my previous seed phrase and wallet, I learned my lesson the hard way. I began to keep a constant check on my seed phrase so as to be sure they are where they are so that if anything happens again, I can be able to recover it easily. Actually, what happened that made me lose my wallet was a result of my phone crashing one night while online trying to download an app. All of a sudden, my phone went off, and I had not backed up my seed phrase anywhere in the meantime.

It seems that your problem wasn't not checking on the seed phrase, but not having any backups at all. You can have a backup in the form of wallet file, a private key, or a seed phrase conversion. Any of them will allow you to access the money and you don't really need to check on them. As for having a wallet on your phone and no backup you did at least a couple of "nono's" there.
It's not recommended to use phone as your main wallet without having a computer version anywhere because you carry that phone with you everywhere. The chances of it getting damaged or stolen are high and losing it will mean losing access to your money, even if you have a backup seed. Buying another phone and recovering your wallet can take a while and could give the thief enough time to guess your wallet password if it's weak enough. I'm not even going to start with people who use no passwords thinking that it's safe since they have a fingerprint scanner and are the only ones that use the device.

[Dzwaafu11]

Lessons( 1) Do not keep your seed phrase in a particular place (2) Always check your seed phrase to be sure it is intact (3) Be sure you alone have access where your seed phrase is kept.

Conclusion: Knowing too well that keeping the seed phrase and other account related information of a user private are some ways to ensure adequate security, I think we need to do a constant check on our seed phrase so that we don't end up losing it.

Checking your seed phrase is very important, regardless of how secured it is in the place you think you keep it. We need to be checking it often to be sure of what we keep in there. There is a saying that says someone who wants your thing will take care of it better than you do, and we know that scammers are very smart, so everything can happen. We also need to be checking the seed phrase even if we hide it in a secure place.

Checking it will make someone not forget where it was kept. The fact that when someone hides something, sometimes they forget where it is because it's been a long time since they checked it, but when you often check, you won’t forget where it was stored.

[btc78]

I’ve never looked at it since I kept it in a location only I know

i’m not the most organized person so i try my best to keep things in place where i last put them
they are also not in any of my devices so it’s not like i have easy access to it anyway i remember where it is
but i just don’t make it a habit to always check if someone sees me taking it out i’ll be in real trouble but this way i think it’s far safer

Actually, what happened that made me lose my wallet was a result of my phone crashing one night while online trying to download an app. All of a sudden, my phone went off, and I had not backed up my seed phrase anywhere in the meantime.

it is not advisable to keep pictures of your seed phrase or take note of it in your note-taking apps
if your phone gets stolen or hacked, you have no way of recovering your seed phrase

write it down on paper or press it into metal and put it in a secure location

[Stable090]

I think writing your seed phrase on a sheet of paper is risky. Instead, get a note book or as diary and write them on it and keep somewhere you can easily access.

I guess writing your seed phrase on paper is kind of risky, but I don’t see any difference in writing seed phrase on paper, diary, and book, all is still paper and can be damaged at any moment, so it’s better we look for something better than a book that can’t easily be damaged. I do see people do recommend carving it on steel, which I see as a good idea because metals can’t easily be damaged compared to the book and diary that you just mentioned above.
 
Keeping your seed phrase in a place that can be easily accessible is the best, why do you have to hide it in a place that can’t be easily accessible? And just as I said, a diary or book is not still the best place to write your seed phrase, and you can write it in different places and hide the seed phrase in different places.