You haven't finished backing up your keys until you've successfully restored from the backup.
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Should have triple checked ✅
and have your significant other try a restoration 😉
cc nostr:nprofile1qqsd7dva9jdz5ckq69egcc4ucp2xd24mgzf85vs6wagty2qqpfmkepqpzemhxue69uhhwmm59eeksctkd9hxwtntd9mkjqgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcqguwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxy6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skcjh3003 Next time we give kids to your mum, let's forget about getting sex, drugs and rockenroll. We have some real shit to deal with.
After successfully restoring a wallet and sending a test transaction, the clothes come off, and not before!
Wise words from nostr:nprofile1qqsxy0kjrr0gzvghsdjk0q7kee5sk5s638zdcz0j393wt075lf2fyjgprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvsp8wyc
& nostr:nprofile1qqsr7acdvhf6we9fch94qwhpy0nza36e3tgrtkpku25ppuu80f69kfqpzemhxue69uhkummnw3ex2mrfw3jhxtn0wfnj7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09utse0r3: “and have your significant other try a restoration 😉”
NEVER SUCCESSFULLY RESTORED FROM BACKED UP KEYS, NEVER AGAIN WILL YOU SEE YOUR COINS
Test your backups. A backup you haven’t tested is like schrodingers cat where you don’t know if it’s alive or dead.
Anyone with a reasonable amount of cold storage Bitcoin should buy 2 hardware wallets, write their seed down from the first, use the written seed to restore to the second, and make sure everything matches. Then if it has a secure element like nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvf5hgcm0d9hx2u3wwdhkx6tpdshsqgpw8vcwuzp9nhx7av0pkctlayxgultryc6flkl0p0w35ujfkhv54urt0dst you can store your second copy of your encrypted seed in a secure trusted location in addition to also having a method of recovering your written seed.