The Worst Places to Keep Your Crypto Wallet Seed Phrase

A look at the best practices and worst hiding places for what could be a home's most important and richest possession: a key phrase.

Under the mattress, in the seams of luggage, or even rolled up in a cigar, what are the worst and best ways to protect a keyphrase? The key to unlocking and recovering cryptocurrency, a seed phrase, must be secure and safe.

Especially now that prices are down and crypto tourists are gone, it might be time for some crypto security spring cleaning. Security begins with a seed phrase, sometimes called a recovery phrase.

It's undeniable: Bitcoin and the broader crypto space are in the grip of a bear market. Ever since Do Kwon's Terra experiment went up in smoke, a crypto-contagion has snuffed out the most reputable exchanges, causing many self-sovereignty advocates to chant "not your keys, not your coins". p>

Indeed, not a day goes by without another “trusted” crypto lender freezing customer withdrawals. From Singapore crypto lender Vauld to Thailand crypto exchange...