"To add a bit more practical advice to this, if you’re struggling with backing up and securing your seed phrase for any hardware or software wallet, consider following these simple steps:

❌ Don’t be scared! You can absolutely do this yourself, it’s not as bad as it may seem.

❌ Don’t overcomplicate your setup! Stay away from multisig, dice rolls, and other advanced options.

❌ Don’t put your seed phrase into a notepad app or password manager, or text or email it to yourself.

✅ Choose a 12 word seed to make things simpler (you don’t lose any real-world security doing 12 instead of 24).

✅ *Immediately* write down those 12 words.

✅ Before sending any funds to the wallet, test restoring from the seed words you just wrote down.

✅ Store your 12 words somewhere safe (often keeping them with other important documents is good enough to start).

✅ Regularly check to be sure you know where your seed phrase is and that it’s legible and usable.

That’s it 🤷‍♂️

Often us Bitcoiners make it sound worse than it is as push people to overcomplicate setups unnecessarily. Your biggest risk of losing funds is overcomplicating your setup or not testing restore at all. KISS (“keep it simple stupid”) is almost always the right place to start!

If you want to build on that setup, I’d recommend stepping up your seed storage to steel of some kind (I personally use and love @cryptosteel) to protect your seed against fire or water damage. For a step above that you can consider adding a passphrase to your wallet, but if you do that PLEASE STORE IT SAFELY (I.e. in a good, e2ee password manager) as losing your passphrase means losing your funds."