Topic: IMPORTANT! Always check your Seed twice. (Read 572 times)

Checking and double checking the Seed phrase is an important part of ensuring the safety of cryptocurrency ownership; very often, due to inattention, you can simply write down the wrong word order in a notebook or on a piece of paper, and this will lead to a big problem and loss of assets in the future.

I did not need to have my property robbed to be afraid of leaving my door unlocked.  Either they are very irresponsible or they do not care unless it affects them.

Another thing: Check your seed's integrity. At least once a few months. Create backups. There are far more chances you screw things up than some random dude compromising your seed phrase. It has not happened to me, but I'd absolutely not want to be the guy who found out his text was erased from a flood, or a heavy storm.

It is a good reminder to take this shit seriously, because we're all alone in this. There is no recovery service.

This is one of the WORST ways to keep your Seed.  Do not link your Wallet to suspicious websites but have a Screenshot of your Seed?  This sounds like a HUGE disaster waiting to happen.

Practice better Seed storage methods.  Bots scrapping text off images are a thing.  Try writing a post on a popular Internet forum like Reddit containing a digital game code.  It will become redeemed in seconds.  Not because humans redeem it.  Because bots do.

There was a time when people started changing a few digits to *s and #s and you had to read the title to find out what to replace them with.  Some kind of a game which was also against bots.  I imagine these scripts are now much better and faster than that.  Chat GPT can give you very well composed answers in seconds.  It can now read images and all too.  All it takes is you accidentally upload the image on some Server that gets compromised at one point in the future.  Or you get a virus that does just that.  Scans your images to find codes, Seed phrases et cetera.

Keep your Seed safe.  Please.  We do not need one more thread of some body who is desperate to find who stole their Bitcoin.

I have also been a victim of this before and I almost cried because everything I was inputting to get my account back was never working for me. I tried different means, I used different words maybe it's going to help me to get it correct but I could not. I had to leave and go to bed in excruciating pains because I had tried everything I needed to do. I had to go back to try inputting the seed phrase after some weeks my mind had settled down. I finally got it correct after hundreds of trying.

This is a good reminder, perhaps this is trivial for many people, but it is important for the security of our wallets in the future. To be honest, I always do what you say every time I create a new wallet by writing a seed phrase and saving it. After that, I restored the wallet again and entered the seed phrase that had been saved. This is to ensure that the phrases we store are truly valid.

Because the seed phrase is very fatal if entered incorrectly, even if you write the wrong lower or upper case letter, we will fail to access our wallet. So it's true, as you said, it's better to check twice or three times before saving a seed phrase, especially in a wallet that we keep for the long term or the main wallet, of course we really need to be careful and thorough.

A very good observation Op I think it takes someone who has made this particular mistake to understand the importance of double checking your seed phrase even after writing it down for proper confirmation. The last time I made this mistake was the day I tried to screenshot the words so that I can write them down when am less busy but guess what, it was unable to screenshot and out of curiosity I almost made the mistake but thank God I checked it again if not i would have ended up making this mistake so kudos to op for bringing this up here.

This is actually a bad procedure. You make digital copies of your mnemonic recovery words, store them on your likely online devices and if they become infected by malware, your mnemonic recovery words can be stolen. You can't be 100% sure to avoid an infection.

When you create a wallet and your mnemonic recovery words are displayed, write them down on a piece of paper, number every word by its position, write down the reason for this wallet and the creation date, write down the derivation path used. Your offline, analog backup is 100% not reachable for malware, period!

Usually I screenshot the phrase because to check and re-enter it we just open the image and retype it, use a laptop or desktop to make it easier and save it on my hard disk and laptop. Actually, this depends on how each person works, just be careful and save it and don't link your wallet to suspicious sites. It is important to always check your address or seed phrase regularly.

That's actually the truth about it. Bitcoin is too important or should I said precious to be wrongly transferred to an unknown direction. Bitcoin is limited in supply and should be handled with care. Always double check the information before performing some certain task. In crypto currency whatever money that loss can never be replaced or reproduced so let be guided in other not to make silly mistakes.

You only can be sure that you already made a good, accurate and usable backup if you test that backup for wallet recovery.

Use the backup to recover your wallet, then compare the recovered wallet with your initial wallet. If receiving address, transaction history are the same between initial and recovered wallets, your backups are good to use.

Always check backup's validity before funding your wallet.

Giving caution to the highest offenders , especially when it comes to cryptocurrencies , is crucial to who we are as a resource. Especially when it comes to managing our own wallet information. Seed phrases need to be kept very secure. Repeated observations should be made in writing down the seed phrases. So that there is no mistake. Because these seed phrases will be useful when recovering your wallet. So that you don't have to be in danger, you have to watch and save. So that cryptocurrency users can create a safe environment.

The thing is, you can't easily make a non-digital backup of private keys. Writing them down is error prone even for a single key and you don't want to do that for multiple private keys which a Bitcoin wallet usually uses. This is completely out of question.

If you export unencrypted private keys, you need a safe offline working environment. It's not enough to turn off any internet connection of an otherwise online device and then assume it's safe to handle private keys while it is offline when you later make this device online again.
Don't assume your daily driver you do all your internet shit with to be safe. Internet browsers are not safe software, they're too complex.

The more you use a modern Bitcoin wallet, the more private keys and addresses have been and are in use usually. Exporting the correct private keys for your current coins becomes a tedious and error prone process. Simply don't do that, it's usually not necessary if you have a properly redundant analog backup of your wallet's mnemonic recovery words and derivation path used by your wallet. A separate redundant backup of the optional mnemonic passphrase is required if you use that for your wallet, too.

I strongly advise to practice a full wallet recovery as if you need to do it in case of a desaster. You will only then be able to verify if you can actually recover your wallet properly. How often did people get excited when they created their wallet or bought a hardware wallet. They couldn't wait to setup a new wallet, transfer some coins to it and that's it. And when later some issues showed up for whatever reason, they struggled with recovery.

I know that with HD wallets, nowadays nobody backs up the private keys to their different addresses, because the seed phrase is enough to generate everything. But i just want to add that if you lose your seed phrase and your wallet file is not in any of your devices, but you have the private key to the address hodling your funds, you can use it to import that address into a wallet and spend your funds, but don't depend on that, back up your seed phrase securely and have 2-3 copies of it in different places.

Great advice, you never want to go without making sure that one day if the wallet is lost or not accessible, you can restore it and your coins.
Your method is great and should be good to go. One more thing, you also need to make sure that you have never stored your seed on Internet.
If it's on Internet, it's not safe. A hacker might wait months just to scam you.

this is a good method. but you should first complete the wallet creation and note down the wallet address too. then you can repeat the process to verify the seed. because sometimes even you enter a different word (with a similarity) in the wallet, it'll still open a wallet but then the address will be new. that's why it is always good to note down the address too.

Thank you for this important information, it is very important to crosscheck seed phrase when we open a new wallet, if a person makes a mistake it will be very costly, you don't know when you will need to import your wallet and if there is any mistake in the spelling of even one phrase or miss the order of the phrases maybe number 1 goes to number 2, then the coins in the wallet can not be recovered again. I have heard about people who can not send their coins again because of the mistake that is associated with seed phrase, either they lost it or they did not crosscheck it very well when they opened the wallet.

After backing up the seed phase, you should not only write it down, but in this case, you must re-download and install the wallet and check whether the wallet is correct with seedback phases. Inadvertently after writing wrong Seed phase if after depositing Cryptos without checking if the wallet shows wrong Seed phase then nothing can be done but carelessly neglecting the security of the wallet will result in huge losses. So after downloading and installing the wallet we must  Security seed phase of the wallet should be written in the notebook and download and reinstall the wallet again to check the seed phase of the wallet.

This is truly important advice, and many may overlook it when creating a new wallet and depositing coins they plan to hold for the long term. Making a mistake in writing a word from the seed phrases or arranging them in the wrong order is equivalent to losing the wallet and the assets within it. Even with the private key, if a letter is accidentally capitalized or in lowercase or if an extra or missing character is present, it will cause a big problem.

I have not encountered this issue since I started in this field because, after creating a new wallet, I save the recovery phrases in a secure place. Then, I check them by restoring and reopening the wallet using these phrases to ensure that I can smoothly access my wallet and see my assets without facing any problems if I'm absent for long periods. The additional password to open the wallet is not a problem such as the seed phrases and the private key. In case of forgetting the password, the wallet can be reinstalled, and after restoring the wallet, you can set a new password.

Thank you, OP, and I hope that no one rushes after creating a new wallet and avoids being lazy, as it only takes a few minutes.

I agree with PG, I've done that with my wallets especially with the hardware wallet that I own. I have tested it if it will actually recover with that the same one that I've written down, it's just so important to check it out since you'll be dependent on it as per recovery or when you try to sweep that wallet. Now, those that have missed it could check it on your own and check your seed phrases if they're going to work but much better to check everything else and details so you won't accidentally erase everything entirely.