One simple solution is to split your seed phrase in two. Put one half in a safe bank vault and the other in a quiet corner of your second house where no one lives.

If you use flash drives and phones to store seed phrases, you need to know that electronic products can fail at any time without prior notice to you. So you need to check them regularly and replace them promptly if one of them is broken. Furthermore, storing them on your phone is not a smart idea because what if someone can access your phone? Or your phone suddenly breaks down and you won't be able to access it.

No matter how much or how little bitcoin you own, it is your money and property, you should cherish it in every way. It may only be worth a few thousand dollars now but could be worth $1 million in the future if bitcoin increases in price.

Yeah that was why I said earlier i have them stored in several places, and again for additional security purposes I planned to print them out as hardcopy to get stored in my file storage where I have my other important documents. This is another way although if you don't indicate any note that mentioned about BTC non would know that idea is your bitcoin seedphrase.. Also most times I do insert my flash drive to my system to regularly check them to know if they are properly active and working effectively before I had this idea of printing it out as hardcopy file.

Holding Bitcoin in a hardware wallet, you back up your seed phrase by writing all the words in a paper or steel plate: you will complain like you pointed out in your thread.

Holding Bitcoin in a hardware wallet, you back up your seed phrase by writing few parts in a paper or steel plate: you will complain if there's a chance you will lose one of your back up.

Holding Bitcoin in a centralized exchange: you will complain the exchange can go bankrupt and it's not safe.

So pick your own way to hold your coins and how to access it!

It's not just about someone physically accessing the laptop and stealing the seed phrase that's stored in the computer, it can be done remotely with the help of a malware like trojan, infostealer or keylogger. There's a recent case of a someone who lost 2 BTC because he stored his seed phrase electronically. Experience they say is the best teacher, but I don't except that and I would rather learn from other persons mistake. Don't say it's because you don't have enough Bitcoin that's why you won't do the right thing, you never know what your small Bitcoin could worth tomorrow.

I don't trust any password managers that are not open source. Lastpass is not open source so I would never use them.

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For another layer of security, I'm also using a password-protected, encrypted PDF file that is stored in the password manager vault.

If my password manager was somehow compromised, a hacker would still need to crack the encrypted PDF file to see whatever they think might be inside it.

Then after that they would also have to figure out my hidden wallet passphrase, but they will not even know about any hidden wallet, because of course it is hidden.

I would suggest putting a small amount of bitcoin in the standard (non-hidden) wallet that the hacker can see so they think that is all you have.

But then use the hidden wallet to store larger amounts.  

when you have a valuable item, you must adequately protect it by securing your private key in a location where you are confident that nobody can quickly access it. It will be impossible for anyone to steal it if it is securely secured. Since you are aware of how important bitcoin is, you are also aware of how to safeguard it so that no one would ever guess that you have secretly stored your private key there.

Additionally, try to avoid disclosing your bitcoin holdings to everyone, you don't have to tell them everything. Your investment should be a secret at all times. You become more open to assault the more you reveal about your bitcoin possession.

why wont you be able to recall where your key is kept? i cant just forget about where a valuable asset is kept. It's advisable to often check the location where you secure your key. You shouldn't lock your private key away and leave it laying around. Furthermore, it's preferable your key is secured in different places rather than having it in one place.

It's best you educate your family members about bitcoin. Your wife or spouse should be aware of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and how you protected your key. If they discover the private key while cleaning the home, I'm confident they won't toss it away after they see it.

If your private key is properly secured, it won't be able to be destroyed by a fire incident. Simply carve your private key onto an iron steel so that it won't be destroyed in the event of a fire or water accident. I advise individuals to safeguard their private keys using that way since, as far as I'm concerned, iron steel cant be destroyed easily.

Great, so you are aware of the passphrase? In that case, your seed phrase remains secure even in physical form, and your concerns about potential theft or accidental discovery are no longer relevant.


But think about this. Storing your wallet seed online or on a device hooked up to the internet opens it up to way more security risks than keeping that seed phrase offline and physical, right? I mean, even with a passphrase for extra protection there is still a chance someone could hack into your wallet if they have the computing power, which there is definitely no shortage of these days.  It really depends how complex your passphrase is and the encryption the password manager uses.  But if you go old school and keep that seed phrase offline? The chances of it getting swiped drop big time cause theres just not as many people who could get their hands on it.   

Just saying, it is something to think about if you want to keep your funds truly safe and  there is tradeoffs either way - convenience versus security. 

Maybe you have to learn to not expose yourself that you own bitcoin. An illiterate armed robber or criminal will go for fiat or TV set and not for a piece of paper.

Maybe you didn't hide it at first. I hardly find the TV remote in my house let alone to find a piece of paper in another person's house.

Hide it more than one place and you will not forget if you have coins in the wallet. A good idea to check it once in a while.

Ok, maybe you hid it close to the waste bin because you haven't thrown away your house documents yet

Very true, but you can hide in more than one house.