When I was a kid, I would sometimes get some money from my grandparents on my birthday or Christmas.
It was usually something like $5 but that was a LOT to me back then. As my own sort of savings, I would often put one or two of the bills in a book that I liked and put it on the shelf and forget about it for a while.
A few years would go by and I would find the money the next time I re-read the book.
Fast forward to more recent years and I have done the same with some seed phrases loaded with like $20 of bitcoin. While it may seem like a trivial amount of money at the time, I have found wallets with like 1 million plus sats in them after just a few years or hodling some wallets in a book.
Obviously keep your main stack stamped into steel but if you want to keep a small amount on a paper wallet and leave it in a book that you are sure that you won't get rid of for years, you might enjoy finding it in years down the road.
When you find it, it is likely to have a much larger purchasing power than when you originally stash it.
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I will never experience such thing from my wallet because I also saved my seeds phrase in a safe place and nothing will make me to miss place them because, I know how important they are to BTC users and I have also learned from other people mistakes.
I don't save my seeds phrase on phone or laptop, that is why i have never experience such thing from my BTC journey and if you are the type of person that is saving seeds phrase on your phone or laptop you are drawing dagger to your self because the day you lost the phone or laptop, it will be the end of your BTC in your wallet.
I don't save my seeds phrase on phone or laptop, that is why i have never experience such thing from my BTC journey and if you are the type of person that is saving seeds phrase on your phone or laptop you are drawing dagger to your self because the day you lost the phone or laptop, it will be the end of your BTC in your wallet.
Hello,
I had read a comic strip where the heroine had lost her seeds and was looking everywhere for the recovery sheet, which made me smile I must say because it's happened to me before ... Yes, not everyone is super methodical (especially when you don't have many sats, are in mental overload or for other reasons). In the comic strip, the author says that it's happened to a lot of us, but what about you? Have you ever looked for your recovery words, or even your wallet, everywhere?
(I had the link to this book for those interested, but it's only in french I think)
Since I started using the wallet and discovered how important the seedphrase is I don't take it for granted. I have never lose my wallet seedphrase before or keep it in a place that someone else can have access to it. I see my wallet as my bitcoin because if anything happens to it I will lose everything I have in the wallet. All the wallet I have used the seedphrases are kept in a safe place that I can never forget. The seedphrase is a very valuable one that must be treated with care, it will be foolish if people are not able to give account on how and where the seedphrase was stored. I had read a comic strip where the heroine had lost her seeds and was looking everywhere for the recovery sheet, which made me smile I must say because it's happened to me before ... Yes, not everyone is super methodical (especially when you don't have many sats, are in mental overload or for other reasons). In the comic strip, the author says that it's happened to a lot of us, but what about you? Have you ever looked for your recovery words, or even your wallet, everywhere?
(I had the link to this book for those interested, but it's only in french I think)
It can only take to be discipline to keep the seedphrase in safe place without it get missing, that is why when I comes to bitcoin one needs to learn how to be discipline and careful this is the reason that a seedphrase can always be saved.
Of course anybody who get lost of his seed phrase should be blame more when the person loses his coins in a wallet all because the person forgets to remember his/her seed phrase should be so much put to blame......
Do you know that coin is money and money is your sweat then your sweat is your blood and you are telling when you are trying to protect or set your blood on safety 🛟 that you will not be careful??? No never we should and suppose to be very careful with anything that has do with safety code because it has cause the lost of many lives in real life and also funds and more when it comes to anything online and especially with this particular seed phrase safety code meh we actually need to be very careful and vulnerable with it....
So losing your coins due to been stupid or gullible of this situation you should be blame A lot of people still don't know the importance of seed phrase until you land yourself in a critical condition that you lost of coins or your wallet was hacked......
Please let's always be guided Thanks 🙏👍
Do you know that coin is money and money is your sweat then your sweat is your blood and you are telling when you are trying to protect or set your blood on safety 🛟 that you will not be careful??? No never we should and suppose to be very careful with anything that has do with safety code because it has cause the lost of many lives in real life and also funds and more when it comes to anything online and especially with this particular seed phrase safety code meh we actually need to be very careful and vulnerable with it....
So losing your coins due to been stupid or gullible of this situation you should be blame A lot of people still don't know the importance of seed phrase until you land yourself in a critical condition that you lost of coins or your wallet was hacked......
Please let's always be guided Thanks 🙏👍
Yes nobody will actually blame any one for losing their coins due to been gullible of the situation. Many were not aware of the importance of seed phrase not until they came here or lost their coins.
I doubt that, anyone who misplaces or lost his/her coins by not securing their seed phrase should not be blamed for their carelessness, provided that the person is literate who can read and write. When dealing with anything that concerns finance we should be careful. If the person actually takes their time to read about wallet they'll probably see seed phrase and it importance, so it now left for them to take it seriously or just joke around with it since their wallet is working fine until they lost their device or something happened to it. In my opinion, those who lost their seed phrase is careless because, there are several ways of safely storing your seed phrase, that is if you are not too lazy to use the search button.
Never! Because we know that the sheet of paper recording the seed phrase is important, so we will take care of this from the beginning and never forget to save this seed phrase.
If it's about a case out there I've read this news where they lost the seed phrase stored on the hard drive which was thrown away and even now it hasn't been found if I'm not mistaken, people when the price is low it's easy to forget but when they know the value is high they will continue to search but the results will still be zero not found.
If it's about a case out there I've read this news where they lost the seed phrase stored on the hard drive which was thrown away and even now it hasn't been found if I'm not mistaken, people when the price is low it's easy to forget but when they know the value is high they will continue to search but the results will still be zero not found.
Most of us that had our first wallets before having crypto knowledge where careless with our seed phrase, because we we're probably not well educated on the importance of keeping them in a safe and secured location, and that if someone had access to it, that they can have access to our coins through the wallet. I still have my first Bitcoin stuck in my first wallet till today, I imported the wallet and whenever I typed the seed phrase, it keeps telling me that I missed a spelling, I've tried different similar words without any luck, so I just left it. The experience is painful, because sometimes I'll just casually calculate the value of the Bitcoin inside, knowing that I might never access it ever.
Yes nobody will actually blame any one for losing their coins due to been gullible of the situation. Many were not aware of the importance of seed phrase not until they came here or lost their coins. In fact most of the wallet we set up in the past to me are wallets that were not secured well and if I am to advice anybody I will say they should change their wallet to another one and then send the coins there at least they now know how to properly protect their coins better.
As for your problem there is a way to recover missing words of a seed phrase provided the others are correct, you can follow this thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-finderouter-a-bitcoin-recovery-tool-v0160-2022-09-19-5214021
Anyone who fails to securely store their mnemonic seed properly will definitely loss their mnemonic seed and this is fact. That's why we need to take this very serious, however securing you seed phrase is one of the most basic aspect of holding that we mustn't ingore as it may lead to loss of all our assets. We have been strictly advised not to save our seed phrase anywhere near the internet, no matter how secure you think the site or online platform might be, e can be hacked or the service could crash as anything is possible. I heard some person talking about saving seed phrase in Google drive, that is not a reliable way of storing your seed phrase, the best way is to use an airgapped system either by using a sheet of paper or you use a hardware wallet.
Exactly what is on my mind, mnemonic seed is the only means you can reopen your Bitcoin wallet, if you lose it you will not be able to recover the Bitcoin inside the wallet. Seriously some Bitcoiners pays deft ears to things like this because they haven't lost a single satoshi for the first time. Before creating your Bitcoin wallet I suggest you first think of were to keep your seed phrase, the areas where you keep your seed phrase matters most then when you are writing down the seed words. If you wright your seed phrase and they are not correct, you can rewrite them when you notice any errors but when you miss placed the recovery seeds dude I don't think the best hacker in around you might be able to recover them for you. There's is a thread I read about seed phrase and were to keep them, I see lot of suggestions. Recovery phrase has to do with generated words by your cryptocurrency wallet which gives you previllage to reach to all your crypto associated with that wallet . Seed phrase nor backup phrase stores all your information that is needed in other to get back your Bitcoin money on-chain, seed phrase backs up funds on the blockchain alone,funds on the off-chain just like Lightening Network and it is act on a greater amount relating to a set of produced numbers.
Unluckily for someone to recover his lost crypto wallet without the seed phrase is not possible,only the seed phrase can make you get your private keys.if you have forgotten your seed phrase,relaxe take your time you might remember it or see where you kept it.
Anyone who fails to securely store their mnemonic seed properly will definitely loss their mnemonic seed and this is fact. That's why we need to take this very serious, however securing you seed phrase is one of the most basic aspect of holding that we mustn't ingore as it may lead to loss of all our assets. We have been strictly advised not to save our seed phrase anywhere near the internet, no matter how secure you think the site or online platform might be, e can be hacked or the service could crash as anything is possible. I heard some person talking about saving seed phrase in Google drive, that is not a reliable way of storing your seed phrase, the best way is to use an airgapped system either by using a sheet of paper or you use a hardware wallet.
Most of us that had our first wallets before having crypto knowledge where careless with our seed phrase, because we we're probably not well educated on the importance of keeping them in a safe and secured location, and that if someone had access to it, that they can have access to our coins through the wallet.
I believe that with first experience in cryptocurrency, most of us usually use centralized exchange account as our first wallet. It is custodial wallet and we only see the number of coin but we don't have private key so we don't actually have that coin.Non custodial wallet gives us private key and control our coins.
Reminder: do not keep your money in online accounts
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I still have my first Bitcoin stuck in my first wallet till today, I imported the wallet and whenever I typed the seed phrase, it keeps telling me that I missed a spelling
It means you made your wallet backup by writing down the seed phrase but you did not test that backup for recovery before funding that wallet.How to back up a seed phrase
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I've tried different similar words without any luck, so I just left it. The experience is painful, because sometimes I'll just casually calculate the value of the Bitcoin inside, knowing that I might never access it ever.
If it is only one word, you have good chance by trying different words in BIP word list but if you wrote inaccurately more words, no chance. 
Most of us that had our first wallets before having crypto knowledge where careless with our seed phrase, because we we're probably not well educated on the importance of keeping them in a safe and secured location, and that if someone had access to it, that they can have access to our coins through the wallet. I still have my first Bitcoin stuck in my first wallet till today, I imported the wallet and whenever I typed the seed phrase, it keeps telling me that I missed a spelling, I've tried different similar words without any luck, so I just left it. The experience is painful, because sometimes I'll just casually calculate the value of the Bitcoin inside, knowing that I might never access it ever.
By the time I came to the forum and learned about Bitcoin, I was quite prepared in terms of the security of storing anything online. I had experience working on the Internet with other sites that required accuracy, and we can say that the information that the seed phrase must be stored very carefully was not a big science for me.
Another point is that the very creation of the wallet, and all the steps with its actions, I received in a personal message from a very good person here on the forum, who, one might say, literally persuaded me to open a wallet and start participating in signature companies. I'm still grateful to him, and I think he remembers that.
Therefore, the fact that I did not lose anything, but on the contrary, I only gained, is the positive influence of this forum and the people who gather here.
Another point is that the very creation of the wallet, and all the steps with its actions, I received in a personal message from a very good person here on the forum, who, one might say, literally persuaded me to open a wallet and start participating in signature companies. I'm still grateful to him, and I think he remembers that.
Therefore, the fact that I did not lose anything, but on the contrary, I only gained, is the positive influence of this forum and the people who gather here.
Oh man, lost recovery phrases. Been there myself back in the day when I first got into crypto. I was like a kid in a candy store, downloading every wallet under the sun not thinking twice about keeping track of all those darn seed phrases. Napkins, sticky notes random notebooks - I had passphrases scattered all over!
These days I'm much more organized with a dedicated crypto notebook locked up safe and sound. but I definitely remember those early days of frantically searching under couch cushions and digging through drawers hoping to miraculously uncover a lost passphrase. and Talk about stressful! Now I just gently remind my friends getting started with crypto: take good care of those seed phrases! Write em down clearly and store 'em properly on day one.
These days I'm much more organized with a dedicated crypto notebook locked up safe and sound. but I definitely remember those early days of frantically searching under couch cushions and digging through drawers hoping to miraculously uncover a lost passphrase. and Talk about stressful! Now I just gently remind my friends getting started with crypto: take good care of those seed phrases! Write em down clearly and store 'em properly on day one.
This message made me laugh a lot, it happened to me too... On the whole I find the answers honest enough because even when we know what to do, we don't always do it; it must be human nature I guess.
It's also worth noting that saving shitcoin portfolio seeds doesn't seem that important to most of the people who replied. By the way, I also lost the seeds of a LISK wallet, I don't even know if that coin still exists...
I've been pretty careful with it over the years - treating it like the password to a crypto vault.
Many folks run into issues - they write it down and lose the paper, store it digitally and lose access from tech problems, or they just don't plan ahead on how to keep it secure. I managed to hold onto mine all this time, keeping it locked up and safe from accidents or hardware failures. It's a relief not having any close calls with losing the phrase and give myself a little pat on the back for keeping it secure all this time.
Many folks run into issues - they write it down and lose the paper, store it digitally and lose access from tech problems, or they just don't plan ahead on how to keep it secure. I managed to hold onto mine all this time, keeping it locked up and safe from accidents or hardware failures. It's a relief not having any close calls with losing the phrase and give myself a little pat on the back for keeping it secure all this time.
but what about you? Have you ever looked for your recovery words, or even your wallet, everywhere?
Whenever people say they lose their seed phrase, I do feel bad for them because I don’t even know how they will feel after losing their bitcoin. I haven’t lost my seed phrase before, but I do sit and think about people who lost their seed phrase. I do put myself in their shoes. I just imagine how bad I am going to feel if I lose access to my bitcoin. If you are planning to invest in bitcoin, the first thing to be done is to learn about wallet security and how to protect your private key before investing, because if you don’t learn all those things, after investing in bitcoin, you might end up losing your bitcoin at the end. 
For starters it is normal to lose the seeds or recovery phrases but most of these wallets don't have any balance. I've got my own personal experience with that but with MEW and IIRC, there's a small amount that I wasn't able to retrieve anymore from them.
But as we stay here, we are learning every single day and once we create another one. We take note of what's with the warning about writing it because every wallet where we generate it, there's always the reminder that if we lose it, then we lose that wallet forever.
Little mistakes are fine but if you go big with losing it and you can no longer find it upon having some balances there, it is more hurtful if it's got Bitcoin.
But as we stay here, we are learning every single day and once we create another one. We take note of what's with the warning about writing it because every wallet where we generate it, there's always the reminder that if we lose it, then we lose that wallet forever.
Little mistakes are fine but if you go big with losing it and you can no longer find it upon having some balances there, it is more hurtful if it's got Bitcoin.
I have never been a situation where I was not aware of where my seedphrase was at a particular time, for any of my wallets. This is because of how much emphasis was placed on it from the sources I gained exposure to crypto through. I learnt early on that how you secure a $10 wallet is exactly the same with how you secure a $10,000 one, cause it's the principles you build that help to keep you secure.
The closest I've had to panic in relation to my seedphrase was a point I was flustered and mistyped a word. I didn't find the "next" option on electrum and panicked a lot.
The closest I've had to panic in relation to my seedphrase was a point I was flustered and mistyped a word. I didn't find the "next" option on electrum and panicked a lot.
Hello,
I had read a comic strip where the heroine had lost her seeds and was looking everywhere for the recovery sheet, which made me smile I must say because it's happened to me before ... Yes, not everyone is super methodical (especially when you don't have many sats, are in mental overload or for other reasons). In the comic strip, the author says that it's happened to a lot of us, but what about you? Have you ever looked for your recovery words, or even your wallet, everywhere?
(I had the link to this book for those interested, but it's only in french I think)
I've never lost my bitcoin wallet seed phrase since I've been connected here. Many may have lost their wallet's seed phrase due to not keeping it safe and many may have had it stolen or lost somehow even after keeping it safe. But if everyone can keep his wallet seed phrase very safe with his own precautions then surely his wallet will be safe. But I have kept my wallet seed phrase very safe for my future precautions I hope I can be very safe in the future. I had read a comic strip where the heroine had lost her seeds and was looking everywhere for the recovery sheet, which made me smile I must say because it's happened to me before ... Yes, not everyone is super methodical (especially when you don't have many sats, are in mental overload or for other reasons). In the comic strip, the author says that it's happened to a lot of us, but what about you? Have you ever looked for your recovery words, or even your wallet, everywhere?
(I had the link to this book for those interested, but it's only in french I think)
I owned different wallets already, several hardware wallets, hot wallets, cold wallets but never had experience of losing those important thing (seeds, passwords, email, etc) for recovery. Plus i placed those things in only one area only so i didn't find it somewhere else if ever i needed it.
This is actually a good way of saving things because this way you know where the precious stuff is and this narrow down your search whenever you need to search for it. But my problem with this method of one place storage of different wallet seed phrase is the single point of failure it offers to me. Although you can be a very carefree or say private person that know one can be know maybe you have coins or not but still shit happens, should any one get hodl of that paper or know of that place, the whole Wallets are exposed, most especially when he doesn’t needs to look for the individual wallets used to generate the seed except of the wallets that customize their seed seed like electrum if not one wallet will just be used to recover those seeds, i still think multiple palace of storage for each seed phrase is better
I created a bunch of seed words for testing purposes and once I had to search for them to test and see if there are any leftover coins.
Some people say you should never throw away your old seed phrases, you never know when you may need them again, maybe to prove ownership of coins someday.
Some people say you should never throw away your old seed phrases, you never know when you may need them again, maybe to prove ownership of coins someday.
Admittedly, I can be the forgetful type that's why I have multiple backups -- this is also useful in case one gets destroyed for whatever reason.
I also try to regularly refresh my memory of their locations similar to what I do with a few passwords and PINS I have to remember lol. So far I have never lost track of my seeds though this do not include the empty wallets -- tbh I only have vague idea about the empties lol.
I also try to regularly refresh my memory of their locations similar to what I do with a few passwords and PINS I have to remember lol. So far I have never lost track of my seeds though this do not include the empty wallets -- tbh I only have vague idea about the empties lol.
what about you? Have you ever looked for your recovery words, or even your wallet, everywhere?
Never had this happen to me with Bitcoin, but I have owned a bunch of different wallets for altcoins over the years. Some of those altcoins just didnt pan out or I lost interest, so there were a few wallets I just deleted and have no way to recover now. Not real smart, I know you should never totally lose access to a wallet but I wanted a clean break from some failed projects. I honestly couldnt even tell you where those old seed phrases are now. It is not best practice, but when an altcoin goes belly up or I just have no use for it anymore, I dont want the reminder sitting around. Who knows, maybe some of them will randomly shoot up in value one day and Ill be kicking myself but I doubt it. Most likely those wallets are gone for good along with those shitcoins. Like I said, not recommending it, but it is what it is.
I can remember two instances.
One with my Electrum wallet that I used for small storage on my Android, I had the backup seeds but somehow I didn't remember where I kept and it came to acknowledge just before factory resetting my Android for spare service like battery or something, luckily that account still logged in and I rewrote the seed words from the app itself.
Another one is related to a shitcoin, the name of the project I can't find and it happened in the ICO era, the $10 worth of tokens went to moon-like 20x or 50x but I was never able to find the seeds and its forever lost.
One with my Electrum wallet that I used for small storage on my Android, I had the backup seeds but somehow I didn't remember where I kept and it came to acknowledge just before factory resetting my Android for spare service like battery or something, luckily that account still logged in and I rewrote the seed words from the app itself.
Another one is related to a shitcoin, the name of the project I can't find and it happened in the ICO era, the $10 worth of tokens went to moon-like 20x or 50x but I was never able to find the seeds and its forever lost.
Oh man, lost recovery phrases. Been there myself back in the day when I first got into crypto. I was like a kid in a candy store, downloading every wallet under the sun not thinking twice about keeping track of all those darn seed phrases. Napkins, sticky notes random notebooks - I had passphrases scattered all over!
These days I'm much more organized with a dedicated crypto notebook locked up safe and sound. but I definitely remember those early days of frantically searching under couch cushions and digging through drawers hoping to miraculously uncover a lost passphrase. and Talk about stressful! Now I just gently remind my friends getting started with crypto: take good care of those seed phrases! Write em down clearly and store 'em properly on day one.
These days I'm much more organized with a dedicated crypto notebook locked up safe and sound. but I definitely remember those early days of frantically searching under couch cushions and digging through drawers hoping to miraculously uncover a lost passphrase. and Talk about stressful! Now I just gently remind my friends getting started with crypto: take good care of those seed phrases! Write em down clearly and store 'em properly on day one.
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Have you ever looked for your recovery words, or even your wallet, everywhere?
Have you ever looked for your recovery words, or even your wallet, everywhere?
As far as I can remember, this has never happened to me, and it is unlikely that it could happen, because I realized a long time ago that you should always be serious about such things. However, I know that there are people who constantly lose things, and when someone behaves irresponsibly in life, it is not surprising that he will lose a piece of paper on which he wrote some words.
It's not easy to be your own bank, and everyone should clear some things up with themselves before investing in cryptocurrencies. Be serious and responsible in life and there is a high probability that you will not lose anything important - and even if you happen to lose or forget one backup, the second or third backup you made will save you - you know that one backup is not enough?
I owned different wallets already, several hardware wallets, hot wallets, cold wallets but never had experience of losing those important thing (seeds, passwords, email, etc) for recovery. Plus i placed those things in only one area only so i didn't find it somewhere else if ever i needed it.
Hello,
I had read a comic strip where the heroine had lost her seeds and was looking everywhere for the recovery sheet, which made me smile I must say because it's happened to me before ... Yes, not everyone is super methodical (especially when you don't have many sats, are in mental overload or for other reasons). In the comic strip, the author says that it's happened to a lot of us, but what about you? Have you ever looked for your recovery words, or even your wallet, everywhere?
(I had the link to this book for those interested, but it's only in french I think)
I had read a comic strip where the heroine had lost her seeds and was looking everywhere for the recovery sheet, which made me smile I must say because it's happened to me before ... Yes, not everyone is super methodical (especially when you don't have many sats, are in mental overload or for other reasons). In the comic strip, the author says that it's happened to a lot of us, but what about you? Have you ever looked for your recovery words, or even your wallet, everywhere?
(I had the link to this book for those interested, but it's only in french I think)
It has happened to me before and i don't think i was able to get hold of myself for the day before i finally realized the means i used in storing the wallet, honestly what will be the first panic on one is the amount of sats you're holding on this same wallet which you know yourself that its not something you can afford to loose, that is why it is very important for us to make use of two means in saving our wallet keys for safety purpose.
Have you ever looked for your recovery words, or even your wallet, everywhere?
If you back up your wallet, your wallet seed, you must store it in places you clearly know and remember. Look for it everywhere, sounds very strange action, because you are owner of the wallet and its back up. It sounds weird if you are carelessly enough to throw it away randomly in any place, and at the end when you need to look for it, you don't know where you store it.It's bad practice that causes loss of your wallet, backup and bitcoins.
How to back up a seed phrase?
It has never happened to me with Bitcoin but back them when Ethlend launched (now known as AAVE). They had a partnership EIDOO wallet and would go ahead to airdrop EIDOO wallet users with the Ethlend tokens. I created the EIDOO wallet and lousily backed up the seeds, I even forgot about the Ethlend tokens in there until a few years later when DeFi became a thing. AAVE token went to an all-time high and the tokens I had in the wallet increased to somewhere around $300 - $400. The mobile phone that I had installed in the wallet was long dead. I looked for the seeds in vain until I just gave up 
That's why I hesitate to use a passphrase because I'm not very organized...
We less organized people have to work harder and stick to rules and procedures to avoid messing up important stuff. We have to acknowledge that we're less organized and that we must do something against it or at least to mitigate it. It's no help to surrender to a less organized nature, no excuses...
Never, or maybe not yet.
I usually try to check my seed phrase at least a week to make sure if I won't lost it, of course this isn't healthy and kind of wasting time because I didn't get anything except to fulfill my desires.
Make sure to back up your seed phrase to few ways, so in case you forget with the first one, you still remember the other places.
I usually try to check my seed phrase at least a week to make sure if I won't lost it, of course this isn't healthy and kind of wasting time because I didn't get anything except to fulfill my desires.
Make sure to back up your seed phrase to few ways, so in case you forget with the first one, you still remember the other places.
At the time I created my first wallet that's based on mnemonic recovery words, I knew about the importance of those recovery words and I made sure to have them written in a specific notebook which I always know where it is. (Redundant safe copies are another topic.)
What I once couldn't reconstruct because I didn't write it down properly with enough clues or hints or in full is an optional mnemonic passphrase I used for an active Testnet wallet (an Electrum Testnet wallet with some Testnet bitcoins in it). When I checked weeks later if I'm able to recover this wallet, I realized that I couldn't because I chose an optional mnemonic passphrase that I couldn't fully remember even with the clues and hints I wrote down. This is how you shoot yourself in the foot...
Fortunately it was only a recovery test procedure that miserably failed without the actual wallet being lost. So, I had to transfer all the Testnet coins into a new Testnet Electrum wallet with an optional mnemonic passphrase that I now explicitly wrote down in full (of course, not together with the mnemonic recovery words of that wallet).
Lesson learned...
What I once couldn't reconstruct because I didn't write it down properly with enough clues or hints or in full is an optional mnemonic passphrase I used for an active Testnet wallet (an Electrum Testnet wallet with some Testnet bitcoins in it). When I checked weeks later if I'm able to recover this wallet, I realized that I couldn't because I chose an optional mnemonic passphrase that I couldn't fully remember even with the clues and hints I wrote down. This is how you shoot yourself in the foot...
Fortunately it was only a recovery test procedure that miserably failed without the actual wallet being lost. So, I had to transfer all the Testnet coins into a new Testnet Electrum wallet with an optional mnemonic passphrase that I now explicitly wrote down in full (of course, not together with the mnemonic recovery words of that wallet).
Lesson learned...
That's why I hesitate to use a passphrase because I'm not very organized...
At the time I created my first wallet that's based on mnemonic recovery words, I knew about the importance of those recovery words and I made sure to have them written in a specific notebook which I always know where it is. (Redundant safe copies are another topic.)
What I once couldn't reconstruct because I didn't write it down properly with enough clues or hints or in full is an optional mnemonic passphrase I used for an active Testnet wallet (an Electrum Testnet wallet with some Testnet bitcoins in it). When I checked weeks later if I'm able to recover this wallet, I realized that I couldn't because I chose an optional mnemonic passphrase that I couldn't fully remember even with the clues and hints I wrote down. This is how you shoot yourself in the foot...
Fortunately it was only a recovery test procedure that miserably failed without the actual wallet being lost. So, I had to transfer all the Testnet coins into a new Testnet Electrum wallet with an optional mnemonic passphrase that I now explicitly wrote down in full (of course, not together with the mnemonic recovery words of that wallet).
Lesson learned...
What I once couldn't reconstruct because I didn't write it down properly with enough clues or hints or in full is an optional mnemonic passphrase I used for an active Testnet wallet (an Electrum Testnet wallet with some Testnet bitcoins in it). When I checked weeks later if I'm able to recover this wallet, I realized that I couldn't because I chose an optional mnemonic passphrase that I couldn't fully remember even with the clues and hints I wrote down. This is how you shoot yourself in the foot...
Fortunately it was only a recovery test procedure that miserably failed without the actual wallet being lost. So, I had to transfer all the Testnet coins into a new Testnet Electrum wallet with an optional mnemonic passphrase that I now explicitly wrote down in full (of course, not together with the mnemonic recovery words of that wallet).
Lesson learned...
I don't know if it counts, it has happened for me with an altcoin (Monero), many years ago. I've put the seed words somewhere safe (heh, not sure why, since the amount were not that much) and after a couple of months I've forgot where that was.
I've found it eventually, but I don't remember if that was in the same day or not.
The more interesting part is that I still own a small amount and, since I don't actually use them and I don't have them in an active wallet, the risk to get in the same situation again is actually quite real.
But with Bitcoin? Nope!
I've found it eventually, but I don't remember if that was in the same day or not.
The more interesting part is that I still own a small amount and, since I don't actually use them and I don't have them in an active wallet, the risk to get in the same situation again is actually quite real.
But with Bitcoin? Nope!
My bitcoin wallet I have not lost access to any of them before, as I take full responsibility for their security even when I have not loaded the wallet with any bitcoin.
But up till date, I still have one particular wallet that contains one or two altcoins, one of which is doing well recently. I just can't find out where the private key of that wallet is. I know it's somewhere, but I still can't remember the exact place I kept it. This is a result of not taking what's in it very seriously, which makes me not have multiple places. I backed it up aside from my mobile device back then, and the note book I am still looking for is still there.
But up till date, I still have one particular wallet that contains one or two altcoins, one of which is doing well recently. I just can't find out where the private key of that wallet is. I know it's somewhere, but I still can't remember the exact place I kept it. This is a result of not taking what's in it very seriously, which makes me not have multiple places. I backed it up aside from my mobile device back then, and the note book I am still looking for is still there.
Hello,
I had read a comic strip where the heroine had lost her seeds and was looking everywhere for the recovery sheet, which made me smile I must say because it's happened to me before ... Yes, not everyone is super methodical (especially when you don't have many sats, are in mental overload or for other reasons). In the comic strip, the author says that it's happened to a lot of us, but what about you? Have you ever looked for your recovery words, or even your wallet, everywhere?
(I had the link to this book for those interested, but it's only in french I think)
I had read a comic strip where the heroine had lost her seeds and was looking everywhere for the recovery sheet, which made me smile I must say because it's happened to me before ... Yes, not everyone is super methodical (especially when you don't have many sats, are in mental overload or for other reasons). In the comic strip, the author says that it's happened to a lot of us, but what about you? Have you ever looked for your recovery words, or even your wallet, everywhere?
(I had the link to this book for those interested, but it's only in french I think)
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