Question for my friends out there. Letβs say you had to go on a one way trip overseas and needed to safely move your corn. How would you do it in a way that minimizes risk over convenience?
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memorize the seed
Thatβs highly risky though. Get conked on the noggin in the right way and itβs gone.
sure, that is a possibility. but there's no reason you can't transfer it to steel after arriving at your destination. anything you bring physically could theoretically get seized, therefore not having anything physical is ideal.
it's all tradeoffs; everyone has to find their own balance
Yeah for sure. Iβm just wondering what the absolute most de-risked method for doing this would be, even if it comes at the cost of all convenience.
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this channel may point you in the right direction.
Memorizing a 12 word seed is very doable for a trip imo.
Never in a million years would i trust that over time tho.
I have quarterly reminders in my calendar to review my cold storage protocols to ensure me and my benefactors know how to use this stuff and that i donβt forget my pin etc.
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give one person half of the words and another person the other half
First posted this here and on twttr over a year ago.. many tried but so far the sats are still there.
βοΈ Possibly a good way to travel with your seed?
You need an unforgettable way to decipher it ofc ;)
π₯ Ideally you would give a copy to a trusted person for redundancy (telling them the decryption cipher as well, or not.. or give half to one person and half to another?)
Pretty sure Iβll get shredded for suggesting this π Open to comments..
π΅οΈ Itβs worth a lot more now, perhaps someone will crack it!
While I donβt want to lose the sats, I would love to know if this method is solid. 
Note: the dots are random, can ignore
This is pretty interesting. I wonder how safe and effective it would be to only carry part of the seed and then give the last X words to someone you trust after memorizing them. Then get where youβre going and call them for the last words in case you forget them. Then burn the seed and move to a fresh one
That, or just add a passphrase you memorize and carry the seed plain text in two parts..
As always with every aspect of Bitcoin security itβs trade offs all the way down..
Personally I like redundancy, so def two distributed copies .. for example in your suggestion above, Iβd give someone else (or at least bury somewhere) the part you carry (obviously not the same person you gave the last X words to :)
And yes, for sure burn the seed once funds are moved when you get where youβre going
Passphrase is a really important tool in this type of scenario. A passphrase turns an existing seed phrase into a completely different wallet.
Remember the gold watch scene in Pulp Fiction?
Ahhh the ol prison wallet strategy. This is obviously the only good answer to my question π€£
GREAT QUESTION & THREAD.
