Hi everyone,
I have memorized my seed phrase. This struck me as a crucial security measure, especially in a space where personal responsibility for security is paramount.
However, I’ve noticed that this doesn’t seem to be a common practice among my peers and in the broader Ethereum community. This got me wondering: why is memorizing your seed phrase not as widespread as I expected?
Is it due to the fear of forgetting it, or do most people rely on other forms of secure backups? Perhaps it’s the complexity of the phrases or a general lack of awareness about how effective this method can be?
I’m curious to hear your thoughts and experiences. Do you memorize your seed phrase? If not, what are your preferred methods for secure storage? Let’s discuss the pros and cons of this approach and share best practices for ensuring the safety of our digital assets.
Looking forward to your insights!
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they might memorize their Mnemonic, as that is literally what Mnemonic means
I know folks that don’t even know their social security number or checking account number from memory. Expecting someone to memorize their seed phrase would be near impossible for those same folks. lol
The first issue that comes to mind is if you end up in an accident with potential brain loss. The 2nd comes from the phrase, if you don’t use it, you lose. So if you aren’t thinking about your seed phrase often, chances are your recollection of it will become hazy. Just my 2 cents.
True that constant review is necessary. I used the method where you imagine the words in different places in your house and you imagine walking around the house looking at the words to recall them. It works very well except that it does require periodic review, which means keeping the phrase handy to verify your memory… which defeats the purpose of having it memorized.
But what if you move to a new house???
I do. I have no idea why other people don’t
Memory is a crazy thing. You can memorise great strings of text and numbers if you use them almost everyday/week. You can even memorise an entire song, ten or a hundred, and sing them by heart after years of not hearing them. Maybe you will miss a word or two, but hey, it’s a whole damn song! But what if the song was just gibberish? What if it was just 20 something random words? Do you listen to those random words everyday? Say them out loud? Sing them to yourself? Guess I’ll wait for you to tell us how that’s going for you in a year or two.
I remember most of Lemon Demon’s Word Disassociation and I haven’t heard it in 15 years. It’s a funny thing with music that aids in memory.
I have over 100 seeds.
Also knowing my seeds allows me to compromise them.
Them being safely locked up in my offline password manager is just sooo much more secure.
I’ve got to point this out, the people saying that there is a likelihood that someone gets a head injury, amnesia, and is then called upon in this state to have to recall their seed phrase are just grasping at straws to justify the belief. It’s a weak argument as it is extremely unlikely to happen to 99.99% of the human population.
There’s some cognitive dissonance there.
Dumb, so many things can go wrong. This isnt it. Good luck.
Multiple wallets, too much seeds
I wrote my seed phrase on paper, put it in a bottle and threw it in the sea, am I doing it right?
Don’t get hit on the head
I also have the 2FA recovery numbers memorized /s
Why not encrypt it and store it ? Too easy ? Or you are a MS Windows user ?
I use Gentoo
Very few people on the planet face a threat model where memorizing a seed phrase is worthwhile. Leaving a seed phrase accessible long enough to memorize it considerably increases the likelihood of it being compromised. Locking it up and hiding it immediately greatly reduces this possibility.
You are right about it not being difficult to memorize a seed phrase. It is not hard to do many things that are unnecessary and unlikely to be useful. Only an idiot would fail to realize that such an exercise is essentially pointless, and then proceed to brag about his ability to memorize a few words, while simultaneously demonstrating his inability to reason about basic things.
Now make that 5 different seed phrases for 5 different wallets. That’s why people can’t memorize theirs.
Memorising something so long will require almost daily or bi-daily reminding. You remember your card pin because it’s 4 numbers and you use it almost every day. 16 totally random and out of context words takes some doing
not true