That’s why you gotta laminate your seed phrase, at the very least. And put it somewhere where it will stay for a very long time and that you’ll remember (maybe hidden in a certain book, or put a false bottom in a drawer, I dunno get creative). Doesn’t matter what you have or don’t have on a disk, the Bitcoin isn’t on the disk, it was the words you should be protecting.
When I first acquired it, I wasn’t aware of a place to even check it’s value. There was this old game called Dragon Tales, where you could gamble whole BTC on things like kicking a coconut tree to see if 0-4 BTC worth of coconuts would fall…
Honestly even lamination isn’t great. Won’t survive a fire.
Best options I’ve seen are engraving your seed into metal, and/or putting multiple copies in trusted locations like family houses or safety deposit boxes.
Still looking for that backup of that disk with my bitcoin wallet from the early days… sadly probably gone forever.
That’s why you gotta laminate your seed phrase, at the very least. And put it somewhere where it will stay for a very long time and that you’ll remember (maybe hidden in a certain book, or put a false bottom in a drawer, I dunno get creative). Doesn’t matter what you have or don’t have on a disk, the Bitcoin isn’t on the disk, it was the words you should be protecting.
This was when BTC was like 5 cents and no one had learned this lesson yet.
When I first acquired it, I wasn’t aware of a place to even check it’s value. There was this old game called Dragon Tales, where you could gamble whole BTC on things like kicking a coconut tree to see if 0-4 BTC worth of coconuts would fall…
Honestly even lamination isn’t great. Won’t survive a fire.
Best options I’ve seen are engraving your seed into metal, and/or putting multiple copies in trusted locations like family houses or safety deposit boxes.
I chuck a backup of stuff in my storage for that reason. Even if my house burns down I’ll still be OK with those backups.