best way to distribute your seed phrases

[sleepfirefly]

people maximize security by distributing their storage of seed phrase in different locations for an even stronger security, they split the 12-word seed phrase into two and keep it in two different locations but i read someone say that if someone finds the other half it would be easy to apply brute force to find the other 6 words

now if you split it into three locations, it can still be recoverable even if one location gets compromised they might find it hard to find the other two locations or find the other words

maybe some people don't split it at all and just put all words in one place or two

[Ruttoshi]

maybe some people don't split it at all and just put all words in one place or two

It's wrong practice to split your seed phrase into two or three parts because if one is missing, you will not have access to your wallet anymore.

It's good that you add passphrase to your seed phrase for extra layer of security instead of splitting your seed phrase. If you add passphrase, you should keep the passphrase in a separate place from your seed phrase so that whoever sees your seed phrase will not be able to access your wallet without your passphrase. You should make three copies of them and keep in three different locations for backup.

[348Judah]

people maximize security by distributing their storage of seed phrase in different locations for an even stronger security, they split the 12-word seed phrase into two and keep it in two different locations but i read someone say that if someone finds the other half it would be easy to apply brute force to find the other 6 words

Why doe we need to split them on different locations knowing that if we missed out on one out of the three, we can't have access to our coins, is it not better to use some of the best recommendations to securing our seed phrase from these threads am going to share to us  below, these have been discussed countless of times for our own safety, here are the top best.

storing seed phrase with washers
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5389446.0

seeds backup tools
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5263482.0

additional security to your seed phrase
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5230920.0

[joniboini]

Where did you read that splitting seed phrases is the recommended method for storing your backups? Did they also tell you what to do if one of them is missing? Are you sure it isn't about a multisig wallet? I don't think bruteforcing the rest of your missing seedphrases is as easy as you said tbh. I think you should avoid this source if they believe splitting seed phrases is the best option, if they don't explain the pros and cons properly (even if you divide it into 3, 4 parts, etc). CMIIW.

[GreatArkansas]

maybe some people don't split it at all and just put all words in one place or two

It's wrong practice to split your seed phrase into two or three parts because if one is missing, you will not have access to your wallet anymore.

It's good that you add passphrase to your seed phrase for extra layer of security instead of splitting your seed phrase. If you add passphrase, you should keep the passphrase in a separate place from your seed phrase so that whoever sees your seed phrase will not be able to access your wallet without your passphrase. You should make three copies of them and keep in three different locations for backup.

No issue with using a passphrase here, I agree with Ruttoshi about the risk of splitting the seed phrase. I would rather have my complete seed phrase backup in multiple places rather than splitting it on multiple places.

About the passphrase - this is better security as long as you manage it correctly, like keeping several secure backups of both seedphrase and passphrase.

[Karl_3000]

Where did you read that splitting seed phrases is the recommended method for storing your backups?

There is nothing that you can not see online, as some are correct some are not correct. I believe some people will say splitting seed phrase will be good but it is not good because the person can find it difficult to recover his wallet.

Using passphrase instead of splitting the seed phrase is better. It is better to have the seed phrase in full as backups somewhere and also have passphrase as the extra word in another locations, the passphrase that can be use to have access to your coins with the seed phrase.

[noorman0]

I don't think this adds a substantial layer of security. If your most secure location is compromised and someone aware it's a seed phrase, you've essentially exposed your crypto holdings. Even distributing it increases the risk of physical violence. Say a robber finds six words in your drawer, they'll force you to reveal the rest.

Ruttoshi's tip makes more sense with a passphrase or having 24 seed phrases with 2 distributed parts, because people in a hurry won't know if 12 words are the complete set to unlock your wallet. But I still don't agree with backing up 3 different places, as long as they're in the same room/building.

[BattleDog]

Splitting a 12-word phrase into chunks like "6 words here, 6 words there" is just going to make your own life fragile. You've basically invented a single point of failure three times. lose one slip of paper or mess up one backup and the whole wallet is gone, and if an attacker gets two pieces you're betting your stack on them being lazy rather than any math.

[Satofan44]

There is no best way. What is the most appropriate method for you depends entirely on your circumstances. What are your needs, what are your options, how much are you storing and how much can you invest for storage? Generally seed phrases are best stored using those metal backup solutions (not using pen and paper). Advanced methods would use some sharding option which tolerates the loss of some shards. People also often forget that the wallet that you are using itself is a redundancy on your seed phrase.

If your seed phrase is split into 2 pieces and you have your wallet, you need to lose 2 things at the same time for it to be irrecoverable. Your wallet must be lost (or fail) and a piece of the seed phrase must be lost. For small amounts I don't recommend complicating too much, you are more likely to forget where you stored something (the more locations that you have) than to destroy your wallet and lose 1 piece at the same time.

Significant holdings (hundreds of thousands or millions) should use a seed phrase and passphrase, separately stored or sharded in several backup locations for redundancy.

It's wrong practice to split your seed phrase into two or three parts because if one is missing, you will not have access to your wallet anymore.

Wrong. If you store your whole seed phrase in one piece and that piece is missing, you will not have access to your wallet. This is different how? Because your peanut brain told you so?

It's good that you add passphrase to your seed phrase for extra layer of security instead of splitting your seed phrase. If you add passphrase, you should keep the passphrase in a separate place from your seed phrase so that whoever sees your seed phrase will not be able to access your wallet without your passphrase. You should make three copies of them and keep in three different locations for backup.

If you lose your passphrase, your money is gone too. Neither of this is any different to the type of storing that you are dismissing.

Splitting a 12-word phrase into chunks like "6 words here, 6 words there" is just going to make your own life fragile. You've basically invented a single point of failure three times. lose one slip of paper or mess up one backup and the whole wallet is gone, and if an attacker gets two pieces you're betting your stack on them being lazy rather than any math.

What kind of retarded line of arguing is this? How did you ever earn a single merit here, are you being boosted by your fellow farmers? Having a seed phrase fully stored in 1 location is always worse than a seed phrase split across locations.
There are too many idiots in threads like this giving advice on things that they don't understand.

[aylabadia05]

Separate storage is fine as long as it guarantees undisturbed data. The logic is this: the more complex the data, the stronger the security.
Good storage practices are those that we personally deem secure, such as being invulnerable to water, fire, or earthquakes.
I store my seed phrase in a location that's off the internet and accessible to prevent unwanted incidents.

[Zanab247]

Many crypto users have lost a lot of coins because they were not caution about their seed phrases to write them down in different places or store them in their phone or laptop. People have different way of saving their seeds phrase, some will distribute them in different locations that will be easy for them to gain access to the seeds phrase.

Leave your seeds phrase in one place is dangerous to crypto users, because there can be fire incident or water incident that will make your house or room be flooding with water to condemn the paper or laptop you  saved the seeds phrase. If you write them down in different places in different house's, I guess it will be more safer for future purpose.

[Cryptomultiplier]

The most important information to keep dear is that the essence of using seed phrase is to protect against hackers, malware and physical damage like fire, water or loss.

The next is to have an idea of what you intend to use the wallet for, that you would demand such kind of heavy security. We would be putting amount, duration, strategy and accessibility into consideration when answering this part.

Some of the best ways I could dig up may include using offline storage medium like metal steel or titanium and fire resistant paper.
You could of course distribute across zones and regions by using safe deposit boxes or home or office boxes, and lastly would be splitting the seeds and keeping them in different locations of which you would have to get hold of all seed phrases from the different locations before having access to the wallet.

[notocactus]

people maximize security by distributing their storage of seed phrase in different locations for an even stronger security, they split the 12-word seed phrase into two and keep it in two different locations but i read someone say that if someone finds the other half it would be easy to apply brute force to find the other 6 words

now if you split it into three locations, it can still be recoverable even if one location gets compromised they might find it hard to find the other two locations or find the other words

maybe some people don't split it at all and just put all words in one place or two

Don't split your wallet seed words, it's very risky.
You can store your wallet (mnemonic) seed words in each full wallet backup, but make multiple backups and store them at different locations. You will only need to have access to one of your wallet backups at one of locations for recovering your wallets.

You can learn more about wallet backups, advice, and warnings including DON'T on wallet seed splitting.
How to backup a seed phrase.

[Awaklara]

maybe some people don't split it at all and just put all words in one place or two

I feel that the assets I own are not that large, so the idea of splitting the recovery seed in several places hasn't occurred to me. I still keep it manually and only in one place. 
Some investors who have a large amount of Bitcoin might take security measures in their own way. But isn't splitting the recovery seed in several places too troublesome? I don't know about others, but for me, doing something like that is quite troublesome.

[Bobrox]

Surely any people splitting seed phrases for several place? where are ideas come from must be split seed phrase for several place indeed want get more security reason. I don't think its good ideas for splitting seed phrases for several place will make us difficult later for accessing the wallet, I don't have large amount holding of bitcoin and altcoin assets and I don't use this way splitting several place for seed phrases wallet. I use traditional way for recovering seed phrases by writing manual at one paper, just put that paper already write full seed phrase on the security place without splitting it for several place.
Depend on personal person which one more security save seed phrase by splitting at several place or write manual such as I did and have been running more than four years.

[Jewan420]

Why don't you think about yourself? What will you do if you can't find a fragment? Are you talking about securing access to the wallet or losing it?

However, we don't need so much security that access becomes risky for the owner of the funds. Instead, I would like to introduce you to the passphrase. The passphrase is an additional security measure after the seed phrase. You can set a phrase that is common to you and that you will always remember. When you set the passphrase, the seed phrase will not work without the passphrase. The passphrase is also called the 13th word.

[sunsilk]

I won't split my seeds in some far places. It's good to do this like in your home when you've got some space and are not visible to any intruder, they'll have hard time of getting it.

And it's only you who's got an idea of where you're keeping the other half. It differs per situation and person and that's why whatever you think is going to work for you.

You should prioritize the security of your seeds because even if anyone here tells you the best strategy on how to split it and if it doesn't seem to work for you, it's nonsense.

[Jawhead999]

It would be easier, not easy because guessing 6 words are easier than 12 words.

There's no best way, I even think splitting seed phrase is a bad idea because you might lose one of them and then you lost to access your wallet completely. I prefer to put all the words in one place and I use my brain to remember my seed phrase.

[Satofan44]

Leave your seeds phrase in one place is dangerous to crypto users, because there can be fire incident or water incident that will make your house or room be flooding with water to condemn the paper or laptop you  saved the seeds phrase. If you write them down in different places in different house's, I guess it will be more safer for future purpose.

You are not supposed to store your seed phrase on something that is susceptible to fire or water damage. The metal seed storing options solve this issue. There are only two other issues. One is massive environmental disasters, a flood that would actually carry away your house and the backup. The second is that someone could find your backup since everything is in one place. The following is true for diligent and responsible people: The chance of someone discovering your seed phrase and stealing it is always higher than you losing one or several pieces.

The most important information to keep dear is that the essence of using seed phrase is to protect against hackers, malware and physical damage like fire, water or loss.

A seed phrase backup does not protect from "hackers". A seed phrase can't be "hacked". There is nothing to "hack", it can only be discovered (randomly or stolen with intent) or guessed (randomly).

Don't split your wallet seed words, it's very risky.

No, it is not.

You can store your wallet (mnemonic) seed words in each full wallet backup, but make multiple backups and store them at different locations. You will only need to have access to one of your wallet backups at one of locations for recovering your wallets.

If only 1 location is discovered, you lose everything. More locations = higher probability that 1 location is discovered, since multiple exist. You dismissed a good thing and gave even worse advice instead. Sweet irony.

You can learn more about wallet backups, advice, and warnings including DON'T on wallet seed splitting.
How to backup a seed phrase. (https://blog.lopp.net/how-to-back-up-a-seed-phrase/)

Splitting is a general term that covers a range of behaviors. Sharding the seed is also a form of splitting.

But isn't splitting the recovery seed in several places too troublesome? I don't know about others, but for me, doing something like that is quite troublesome.

No, it is the gold standard of security. Usually what would be done is a multisignature address where keys are held by different people and at different locations. It is very similar to good forms of seed splitting. Anyway a general assumption can be made that if more than 1 location of yours is compromised at any time (2 pieces) then you have terrible security practices. For the average person, this should basically never happen. It is more likely that 1 piece is compromised by chance, e.g., the whole place where one piece is stored got robbed.

I prefer to put all the words in one place and I use my brain to remember my seed phrase.

This is not recommended. First, you will forget it. Second, if you know it then someone can torture it out of you. If you don't know it, no amount of torture will help.  

[Donneski]

From what I've learnt about security, I think cutting the seed phrase into chunks gives a false sense of security. Of a truth, someone with half the phrase can brute force the rest. Even splitting into three locations still doesn’t give real cryptographic protection.

If redundancy is what you want to achieve, store full backups in different safe places. If added security is the goal, then use tools designed for splitting secrets like Shamir, multisig, metal backups, etc.

Trying to DIY seed splitting usually creates more risk than it removes, that's what I know and that's why I won't advise anyone to do that.