Topic: How Often Do You Check Your Seed Phrase. - page 7. (Read 1256 times)

Wherever the keys to someone's fortune are kept, that's where he or she should be conscious of at any given time. Since the seed phrase is the key to our crypto assets, it is advice to always have a duplicate of it on a piece of paper in different places to avoid the incident of losing it as a result of your own kinda experience.

 As for me, where my seed phrase is kept, I have normalized to check on it, once every week to know how intact my crypto funds are. I can't leave checking on it on weeks intervals with the mindset of, it is secured all the time when I know that my siblings can rearrange the house at any time when I am not around.

I understand the temptation to frequently check one's seed phrase, given the warnings about keeping it secure.  However, in my view, constantly verifying it is often unnecessary.  If you are confident in your initial storage methods and there have been no changes to make you doubt that security revisiting the phrase frequently seems excessive.  

Personally, I stored my phrase very carefully when I first created it.  Unless I have a specific reason to question whether it has been compromised, I dont feel the need to keep inspecting it.  Sure, checking it occasionally as a precaution is reasonable.  but doing so too often crosses over into paranoia in my opinion.

I am sure we all want to protect our assets.  But there is such a thing as going overboard.

I don’t think it’s necessary to check where you keep your seed phrase everyday. That’s paranoia. I only go to where I store my seed phrase is when I want to import my wallet into a new device. It’s a good thing you have another copy of your seed phrase stored elsewhere, now that you have access to the wallet, I suggest you move your coins to a new wallet as your seed phrase may already be compromised.

If your seed phrase is documented on paper or any other surface, and kept in a place like a file or safe along with other important personal documents of your choice, it will be wise to occasionally check where these documents are stored so that you will be able to know and detect if someone careless tried to tamper with it.

 If you do not occasionally check, you will never know.

Back in the day when I frequently checked my seedphrase/private key  I accidentally changed a character unknowingly and when I tried to access my wallet I lost control of the wallet just like that..and ever since ,all I do is create wallet, back it up and try get into my account and if all goes smooth it's never again checking on the seedphrase to avoid messing up what I have.

The point in this your story isn't about checking your seed phrase regularly, it should be about you reviewing your opsec, let's say you store millions in cash in your home, if you are relocating, it would be among the first things you make provisions on how to move, that should be how you treat your seed phrase when you are relocating. You cannot forget or mistakenly move it without knowing its present location, what if you left it in your previous home and someone swept your funds.

Take note that your seed phrase is already compromised, and your funds should be swept out of that wallet completely, you don't know who is going to get their hands on your 'lost' seed phrase, so move it into a fresh wallet.

Checking the wallet seed phrase after securely storing it is a good idea cause it helps to know the condition of the seed phrase but checking more often is not a good idea since you need to follow the step that will not expose the seed phrase and if checking often there's a chance for human error wish will expose the seed phrase.

However, you still end up losing the fund either if you don't move the coin to a fresh wallet. The lost seed phrase may fall into the wrong hands
 

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.

Just pushed to ask you Giftedman this question even though I have stylishely cover that part in the earlier comment on what the need is to keep checking your wallet seed at regular internal even though you have no need for it?

Alot have to be made secret about wallet see phrase and keeping it where is safe and secured and out of regular reach is the best approach to it so for me,  there is no need to keep constant check on your seed phrase unless you have need for it,  but anything other than that,  I see it as needless.

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word to the wise.
peace for all.
art for most.
music for some.
orange for none.
goodness is but a wish.
gift of life was for all of us.
machine destroys us.
miracle wanted is:
war is over for us all
zealous ones are
special at this writing style.

It may sound strange, but never. Literally for the last 5 years I haven't touched my backups or my seeds. The only thing I check from time to time is the address in blockchain, to make sure there were no transactions and my money is still where it should be. There's no way there could be a transaction, but I check it maybe twice a year.

So, I have a backup + seed locked safely in a fireproof security safe and also another backup in the form of electrum wallet file on an airgapped PC that I can connect fast if I ever need to move my coins. I haven't even powered up the PC in 2 years, but it was bought brand new and the hard drive is a brand and model known for durability, so I'm not worried about that. If I ever need to relocate, I'll move the whole safe, so there's no need to check if the seed is there.

I don't check my seed phrase often because where I kept them is somewhere safe which I believe that no one will get at reach. The only time I do see my seed phrase is when I phone screen got blank and I needed to have access to my coins. I had to import my seed phrase to the second phone that I was using. I feel that it is not really that necessary to keep checking on it when it is in a safe place because you might expose the place unknown to you. Just make sure that you have enough back up so that it wouldn't be a problem.

Thank you for this advice, the seed phrases are very important in keeping self-custody assets, losing or allowing unscrupulous elements to have access to them is very dangerous. But I must confess that I am guilty of number 1 and I hope I can "turn a new leaf" before it's too late. Having it in at least two locations can't hurt, so I see no reason why I can't duplicate it.

But for 2, I don't stress myself and I won't either, duplicating or even triplicating it should have done the work. While for the 3, the way I coded it is enough for anyone seeing it not to have any use for it.

Since wallet seed phrase is not like wallet address that I have being using multiple time,  I don't check it at any interval but also I always know that my seed phrase are safe and securely kept so there be no need for me to keep checking it all the time.

The most important thing to do is to make sure that your seed phrase are properly stored and also for such once you achieve that,  you can go ahead and be at peace all the time even though you may not necessarily be checking on the seed phrase unless you want to use the seed phrase to restore/recover your wallet on new device.

Checking your seed phrase from time to time is very important irrespective of where you save them.

In your own case that you duplicated your seed phrase, I think it is a good idea to duplicate it, but saving them in the same place is not advisable. To ensure adequate security, if you duplicated your seed phrase, ensure you save them in different location so that you will minimize the risk of losing them all due to relocation you just mentioned, and natural disasters like earth quake, fire out brake and flood.

I think its a good idea to occasionally check on the seed phrase to see if it's there and intact, especially in homes where there are many children. Though, I don't do this because I've mine stored in a very secured location out of reach of anyone. Also, I've duplicate in multiple locations.

If you had not seen your seed phrase, I don't think you'd have lost your funds since you still have your phone or laptop where the fund is stored. You'd have simply created a new wallet, backed it up and send the funds there.

Firstly I would advice you actually change wallet since you can’t find the other back up to seed phrase to avoid any chances of lost. It is better to check your seed phrase back up even it shouldn’t be regularly most especially if it is on paper. For more security reasons i would recommend a steel washer to avoid damage of the paper.

One other back up we do not pay too much attention to is the addition of passphrase to our seed phrase. Passphrase are easier to remember although highly not recommended but once you back it up somewhere even if the seed phrase gets compromised the pass phrase will be another layer of security

This is a very good update @ O.P on you elaborating about the importance of constantly checking our wallet seed phrase, because if only you never had duplicated yours that how you would have ended up losing all your coins, and this should be a strong lessons to each and every one of us here on this forum if we never want to encounter such incident. So on that note, I was able to make a rough sketch trying to explain on the good and bad ways of storing our seed phrase, so that if mistakenly it happens to get into the hand of a third party, they won't be able to know they are holding a seed phrase of a bitcoin wallet.


This first image explains that while storing a wallet seed phrase, it's more advisable you do not write on the heading the word "Wallet Seed phrase" or the name of the wallet, but instead leave it blank, so that who ever happens to come across it will never know it is a wallet seed phrase, but if he/she is smart enough to know it's a seed phrase, he will not know which wallet it belongs to. (i.e Bluewallet, electrum Trust e.t.c). While secondly the words can be written either ascending or descending order, so that whoever finally figures out the wallet, will not know which order is the right order of words but only you alone.


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 always check the seed phrase periodically, maybe if I'm not mistaken, once every 2-4 months (when I remember) because the main store at home is in a confidential place so I always check it to make sure that our seed phrase is safe and not forgotten, I also don't store it in one place, there are three different locations that store the seed phrase, all of which I myself know to maintain confidentiality so that no one knows about it.

Because human nature is forgetful, it is very important to check regularly because when we forget or want to move house, people often forget this precious little bencil so before the incident experienced by the OP, even though there is another place as a backup, we still have to pay attention to this regularly because it's okay if you do that.

I don't know maybe other people check the seed phrase for quite a long time even up to years because they feel they have safely stored it, but for myself to keep checking once every 1 month for example is actually good.

Your story is similar to my own story, I did the same thing when I relocated to another area and I totally forgot that I had seed phrase in that room but what made me not to even have a second thought about it is that I have my wallet intact in another phone but the day the phone refuse to on again was my darkest day, I can't access the wallet and my small amount of bitcoin. I am still holding the phone hoping one day, I will have access to it.

About the seed phrase, to avoid this kind of problem, it's always advisable to share your seed phrase in different location atleast, 2 diffirrent location so that the day you want to access the wallet and it is not available, the other location will be oh help.


Exactly, seed phrase is a very sensitive character that must be carefully back up and kept in a secured location, not even in the room because any of your friends can come to your place and if they find out about it, they can either snap it and move your bitcoin or take it completely from you and then you begin to ask how it was possible for your bitcoin to be stolen despite doing the necessary things.