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Ledger Wallet (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by Ornery_Web9273@alien.top to c/ethereum@blockchained.world

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I have a significant amount of ETH in a Ledger wallet. I store the wallet, along with the phrase words, in a safe in my house. I know it’s extremely dangerous to store the Ledger and the words together but I’m really at a loss as to the best way to secure these things. I’m not an active trader so I don’t need easy access to the Ledger. I used to store the ETH on Gemini but got nervous with the Earn debacle and took them off. I’m worried I’m no safer now than on Gemini. Any suggestions?

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[–] Slater_John@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

25th word stored in an offsite location or in your head.

[–] Richy060688@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Yes this is what i do. Store the physical 24 seeds into a physical safe. Then create a paraphrase (25th word) and store it else where. Im ocd and paranoid so I will never lose this. If u dont have that responsibility sense, i dont recc doing cause if u lose 1 of them youre fucked.

[–] Cryptozombie77@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Heard of many horror stories of people forgetting the phrase from their head

[–] Slater_John@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

25th word lost ( if you dont go for the maximum length and have a general idea about what it was)is still recoverable, and just keep it in plaintext everywhere else on paper.

If you keep it alphanumerical, use like 8-10 letters, doable via brute force as well.

[–] These_Tea84@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Or write an email to someone with the words in. In a story or question about something. Don’t delete the email when they reply. Who’s going to know that contains your 25th word?