#Bitcoin seed phrases typically consist of 12 words.

Are these words random? No.

There are 2,048 possible words that could make up your 12-word seed phrase. The same word can also be used more than once within a seed phrase.

How secure is this? Extremely. 🔐

A 12-word seed phrase has this many possible combinations:

340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456

Even with the best super computers, it would take thousands of years to brute force someone's seed phrase.

By that time, the funds could just be moved to a new wallet or they could be secured by a multi-sig consisting of multiple seed phrases.

Keep your seed phrase safe. 🧡

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So wouldn’t it be fair to say that there are many computers out there just guessing away at seed phrases all day? So a pass phrase or multisig is the only way to make sure your funds don’t get swept?