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
You logic and you will get the answer to your question
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???
Your brain is very unreliable. How many times did you go downstairs and you forgot why?
I recently thought about it. Just in case you have to suddenly flee the country lol
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.
Dumb, so many things can go wrong. This isnt it. Good luck.
I use my seed phrases once a year, maybe less, on random, and rotating non-schedules. I’m nowhere near smart enough to remember a half dozen various seed phrases with different random words and pull those up at will. I make a point not to “need” a seed phrase when I’m away from my office, either, so why would I ever need it memorized, even if I were smart enough to memorize?
You pretty much just want to flex your brain power and don’t really care to hear constructive responses back lol. Weird post
I do. I have no idea why other people don’t
Multiple wallets, too much seeds
Forgot the comedy flair.
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
Now make that 5 different seed phrases for 5 different wallets. That’s why people can’t memorize theirs.
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