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This is great , my father bought a book a long time ago about using flashcard memory to remember up to 40 things. I would ask him before and after work the 20 words and he always got every one of thrm. This method you are teaching us here is very similar. So I can confirm it works. This is the ultimate safety.
Best way to memorize, or rather not forget, a passphrase is choosing a passphrase that only you can dig up instantly from your memory because you have special appreciation for it's origin. Could be a line from a song or poem, a quote from a movie or a line from your favorite book.
Guilty pleasures are a good source too since nobody probably knows what they are.
Guilty pleasures are a good source too since nobody probably knows what they are.
Poems, songs, lyrics, lines from books ,avoid those.
Dictionary attacks will break your passwords pretty fast.
It has to be random stuff.
Best way to memorize, or rather not forget, a passphrase is choosing a passphrase that only you can dig up instantly from your memory because you have special appreciation for it's origin. Could be a line from a song or poem, a quote from a movie or a line from your favorite book.
Guilty pleasures are a good source too since nobody probably knows what they are.
Guilty pleasures are a good source too since nobody probably knows what they are.
dude, just write them on a paper or something. it's easy to forget stuff when you don't think about them for a while. so if you got sick for, say, a week you'll most likely forget a word or five.
Of course we have to write it on paper, store as some random letter or type as a text in our mobile devices. I don't think memorizing these words is good as primary way of keeping it.It is more like secondary option for dedicated bitcoin users or paranoid individuals who doesn't trust anything.
Anyway it was nice tutorial, good job, Op.
Memorizing a passphrase is good assuming you are using it on a constant basis, but if you are not then it's very likely you will forget it. If you repeat this process once a week then that should be sufficient but alas humans are forgetful, and it's always good to have a written or digital backup somewhere.
Hey, welcome everybody.
I just wanted to say: big thanks you guys, this thread is very informative!
Cheers,
I just wanted to say: big thanks you guys, this thread is very informative!
Cheers,
Good tutorial however not for me, I prefer to put the seed in 3 different locations, USB, external HDD and Laptops , as I am not very good with the memory. Thats how exactly I am storing my seed in an encrypted rar which has inside an encrypted Libreoffice writer document.
1 more thing, brain wallets are not secure.
There were tons of dumb folks here that used private keys like: "Please enter password" or "You cant enter here"
Those are dumb people, and will lose their money.
You need random words, and the words can be easily memorized, or in worst case , write down to paper.
There were tons of dumb folks here that used private keys like: "Please enter password" or "You cant enter here"
Those are dumb people, and will lose their money.
You need random words, and the words can be easily memorized, or in worst case , write down to paper.
You could not memorize a private key unless you will save it on a word document or write it on a piece of paper.
Are you sure, because I can memorize like 80 words easily , and only need to retrain myself 1-2 times a month.
Wow, very cool man! How long have been training to get there?
It takes like 10-15 minute to memorize it, then repeat like 2-3 times monthly, and its hard to forget.
You could not memorize a private key unless you will save it on a word document or write it on a piece of paper.
Are you sure, because I can memorize like 80 words easily , and only need to retrain myself 1-2 times a month.
Wow, very cool man! How long have been training to get there?
You could not memorize a private key unless you will save it on a word document or write it on a piece of paper.
Are you sure, because I can memorize like 80 words easily , and only need to retrain myself 1-2 times a month.
You could not memorize a private key unless you will save it on a word document or write it on a piece of paper.
I dont know guys but you guys must be drunk all the time because it's really easy to memorize a password.
Look i have a very bad short term memory, i cant even remember what i ate yesterday, but i have a decent visual memory.
I can remember a password and i only need to retrain my memory 1-2 times a month, its really easy to memorize password with this method, and if your memory is below average then just retrain it 2 times/week, and i think it should be ok.
Look i have a very bad short term memory, i cant even remember what i ate yesterday, but i have a decent visual memory.
I can remember a password and i only need to retrain my memory 1-2 times a month, its really easy to memorize password with this method, and if your memory is below average then just retrain it 2 times/week, and i think it should be ok.
I applaud your technique but some people may not be able to utilize this because different people learn in different ways. The issue is what if you have more than a few wallets that require you to remember your seed words ? I think it would be a little foolish to keep all your bitcoins in your wallet. My main concern is if you have two strings of seeds words associated with two wallets, the worst thing that could happen is something they get mesh together and you end up having two seed phrases from words associated with both wallet. Remembering your seed words is always nice but there is always the concern you might forget them at some point and time.
Well then generate new seeds for the 2nd wallet until all words are different from the seed of the 1st wallet, that way you can imagine 2 stories that are completely different and memorize them both with 100% integrity.
I applaud your technique but some people may not be able to utilize this because different people learn in different ways. The issue is what if you have more than a few wallets that require you to remember your seed words ? I think it would be a little foolish to keep all your bitcoins in your wallet. My main concern is if you have two strings of seeds words associated with two wallets, the worst thing that could happen is something they get mesh together and you end up having two seed phrases from words associated with both wallet. Remembering your seed words is always nice but there is always the concern you might forget them at some point and time.
Really interesting method but I don't want to take the risk of losing the pw's if I am using a wallet with a large amount of money stored in it. Would much rather stick around to the old methods 
that's one weird kind of thread I have to say but pretty brilliant to use that kind of technique to memorize the seed. I was hoping to see the way to memorize the private key rather than the seed 
Private key is damn harder to do that than the seed (at least the seed contains meaningful words ). Anyway, thanks for your tutorial.
Private key is damn harder to do that than the seed (at least the seed contains meaningful words ). Anyway, thanks for your tutorial. That's the 'Memory Palace' or Method of loci, it's a well known memorization technique that has been around since ancient Greece. Some memory champions use it even today. Any of you interested in memory feats can check out the link below for Pi memorization. This guy recited 70,000 pi decimal places blindfolded, it took him 10 hours to do it. I remember in an interview some years back, a Japanese guy who memorized Pi to 40,000 decimal places said he used this visualization technique to achieve his feat.
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-pi-places-memorised
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-pi-places-memorised
Wow i didnt realized this had already been invented, i`ve figured this out of my own when i was a kid, and had to remember damn poetry in school.
Looks like i rediscovered the wheel.
Very useful tutorial, but since i don' t have a good memory, i prefer to write my key/passphrase/password on .txt file
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