What do you mean by storing your seed online ? You're getting my pulse racing ! To me that's where a seed should never be. It should be in a safe, physical place.
For traveling, I could see several options. For example having the words in several chunks, one bit in your wallet (the one with the fiat I mean), one bit as an encrypted file on your smartphone, one bit on an encrypted file on a USB key.
But to be honest a hardware wallet is enough for me, I don't really envision the need to have my seed always with me.
Topic: Best Way to Carry Your Seed When Traveling Or Moving Abroad? - page 8. (Read 1983 times)
Now i think a good solution is leave your seed in a safe deposit box... but do it at two different banks. Thus your seed would have half the seed in one bank, and half in another.
But what happens when you leave the state and move to another state or another country? Well obviously you are going to bring your seed with you since you won't go to that bank anymore. I mean you going to have you seed written a few times broken in pieces and in your wallet during your entire trip?
So I always felt like storing your seed online was a safe way as long as you encrypt it. Thus imagine you type your seed in a program like lastpass or keepass... then upload it to the cloud like dropbox or google drive. So in order to access it... you need your google or dropbox email password.... then you need your lastpass/keepass password in order to access it. So that way, you don't have to worry about anything physical happening... since you store it digitally.
But of course you risk getting hacked as I read so many cases of people putting their seed online in like facebook or wordpad and not encrypt it. And of course just typing it in their email and saving it as a word document where there is no protection against it if your email get hacked. But if you encrypt it the way i described... would that be safe? That way... you dont need to worry about breakins, fires, natural disasters happening etc?
I gotta wonder how some of you travel or move when you do this especially if you are leaving your state or country where you need to fly.
But what happens when you leave the state and move to another state or another country? Well obviously you are going to bring your seed with you since you won't go to that bank anymore. I mean you going to have you seed written a few times broken in pieces and in your wallet during your entire trip?
So I always felt like storing your seed online was a safe way as long as you encrypt it. Thus imagine you type your seed in a program like lastpass or keepass... then upload it to the cloud like dropbox or google drive. So in order to access it... you need your google or dropbox email password.... then you need your lastpass/keepass password in order to access it. So that way, you don't have to worry about anything physical happening... since you store it digitally.
But of course you risk getting hacked as I read so many cases of people putting their seed online in like facebook or wordpad and not encrypt it. And of course just typing it in their email and saving it as a word document where there is no protection against it if your email get hacked. But if you encrypt it the way i described... would that be safe? That way... you dont need to worry about breakins, fires, natural disasters happening etc?
I gotta wonder how some of you travel or move when you do this especially if you are leaving your state or country where you need to fly.
So I'm from the US. But i travel quite a bit and am outside the US majority of the time. My seed is stored online. I do have my hardware wallet nano ledger s with me though. Now I didn't want to bring my seed with me when traveling because well imagine something happens at customs and my bags get searched... well what if customs search through my stuff and then see a paper with my seed. And of course there is a chance they know what it is and can write it down etc. I heard many examples of those workers stealing from luggage, so imagine a search and then they see piece of paper and its words and they know what crypto is. But that is rare of course.
But when i travel abroad, I don't want to have my seed in the apartment as I don't think that is safe. Where im located, there is lot of breakins... thats how it is here. Thief would take electronics and wallet etc. Doesn't matter what neighborhood you are in... its like this here and very common. So people that say move... well most places are like this. Even places that has security. And because of this, i left my seed back in the US. I mean look even in those rich places in california, you have breakins etc.
Now what I'm curious is for those of you who travel or move... how do you bring your seed with you? Obviously if you are moving to somewhere else in the same state, well you can drive there with it so no big deal. But what if you are traveling from say florida to los angeles? Or florida all the way to canada or europe? I mean having the seed with you written on a piece of paper when traveling when flying got to make you all nervous right?
But when i travel abroad, I don't want to have my seed in the apartment as I don't think that is safe. Where im located, there is lot of breakins... thats how it is here. Thief would take electronics and wallet etc. Doesn't matter what neighborhood you are in... its like this here and very common. So people that say move... well most places are like this. Even places that has security. And because of this, i left my seed back in the US. I mean look even in those rich places in california, you have breakins etc.
Now what I'm curious is for those of you who travel or move... how do you bring your seed with you? Obviously if you are moving to somewhere else in the same state, well you can drive there with it so no big deal. But what if you are traveling from say florida to los angeles? Or florida all the way to canada or europe? I mean having the seed with you written on a piece of paper when traveling when flying got to make you all nervous right?
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