Been helping people with their bitcoin security. It may not shock you to know a lot of people have never tested they can spend their bitcoin from their wallet. Please always prove to yourself you can spend from your wallet before dumping your generational wealth in it. PSA.

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Also test that you can recover your wallet. 🫡

Yes, definitely.

And to recover once new wallet is set up.

Yes for sure.

Wallets come and go, seed phrases are here to stay.

My mate had a seed phrase he’d written down. I loaded it into Sparrow wallet - nothing there. He was sure he had Bitcoin on it, so I loaded the phrase into Atomic wallet.

Turns out he’d bought Bitcoin Cash (BCH) 😂

holy moly that's a bummer.

Bitcoin.Co (bitcoin company) is great for the uninitiated

Not from a wallet. But same concert sort of