Two different locations is enough for me. The passphrase does not need to be written down, in which case you can rely on your memory, unlike the seeds. In any case, if you want a hint or to leave it written down, you can also do it in the same house but in a different place.

You're also talking about the average holder, who is likely to have considerably less than 1 bitcoin. In that case, 1 HW and the seed in two different secure locations is more than enough.

There are a lot of point of failure, that's why for me, it's better that you have a lot of backups storage like you did here, and it's not an overkill. And again, the more the better as we really don't know what's going to happen.

Just like the wild fire in LA, maybe there are a lot of crypto users around that huge around that got burn and maybe they only have like 2 back up and what are the chances that all of them got burn at the same time?

I don't like memory as a backup as we all know that it will play tricks on us.

In most of my passwords and seedphrases, I've them stored on a piece of paper at one location. I don't need such unnecessary stress to secure what won't even place me top on the list as one of world's richest men. Even Elon Musk won't have that type of security, storing up his treasures at different locations because he wants to prevent hacks or thefts. I like keeping my stuff simple. Just make sure there are no roving eyes around where you live or store your seeds. That's security enough. It doesn't need one to store up everywhere. What if someone else gains access to any of those places and voids all the safety attempts?

I would rather not rely on my memory to remember such a crucial thing. It's better to write it down. Memory can forget, especially if one has so many things competing for one's attention. What if one becomes sick and suffers partial forgetfulness (maybe memory loss), won't that be kissing one's investment goodbye?

My passphrase strategy is to first write it down...but then I will memorize it totally in my head.
You can do this by first carefully choosing a good passphrase. But DON'T rely on just your memory at first.

A good passphrase should be simple enough for you to memorize, but not too simple that it could be easily guessed by someone else.
And not  too complicated that it can be difficult for you to recall from memory.

So choose something that is very personal to you, for example the name of your favorite teacher in school + the class that they taught + year of your graduation.
It could be the name of your first crush or first girlfriend/boyfriend + where you met, name of your first child and their favorite song, or your first pet and so on.

That is why it is called a pass-PHRASE. Using a combination of words and/or numbers that are very personal to you makes it virtually impossible for a hacker to use a dictionary attack to guess your secret phrase. I would say a minimum of two words/numbers and maximum of four words/numbers is adequate for most.

Then what you do is write down the passphrase on a piece of paper or other physical medium.
Then about once a week or once a month you test yourself to be sure you can recall the passphrase without looking at the answer that you wrote down.
Keep doing this self-testing over and over again for a period of several weeks or months until it is so deeply ingrained in your memory that you know it as well as you know your own name, until you feel comfortable enough to permanently discard your written physical backup.

Even if you never discard your physical backup you should still practice the self-testing once a day, week or month,
so in case you ever lose your physical backup you will still have it ingrained in your memory.
 

Human memory is far from perfect. You may have it in your head at the moment,
but it could be easily forgotten weeks, months or years from now especially if it hasn't been used in a long time.

Retaining the passphrase or seed phrases in memory is the best thing if one wanted their security kept secret.  But the downside is the event where the person forgets things, like in cases of dementia, amnesia and other memory deteriorating illness.

Yes it is indeed good to have hints about the words of these passphrases but same issue will arise in case there is a memory loss cases on the owner.


Same thought here.  1 house is enough just place it in a different location within or under the house.

Well you see, you don't actually need to write down your passphrase - it's supposed to live inside your head. Not even in a password manager. If you forget the passphrase then that's why the seed phrase is written down.

You should make multiple copies of the seed phraee and keep backups of them.

who even has 4 houses in this economy?

i believe you do not need 4 houses to safely store your backups some people do not even have a backup they just list down the passphrase and the seed somewhere and that is it of course the most ideal way is to have a backup of each but i think no need to put it in different physical locations

maybe store it in different hardwares, different kinds and maybe place it separately in your house but i do not think you need to find 3 other houses to store these backups we need to make the most out of what we have

If you store it properly, you don't need to separate where you store your wallet mnemonic seed words and your wallet passphrase. You can store them at the same place, just do it properly.

2 locations for 2 backups are enough as you have two different backups for use and wallet recovery later. If one location is damaged like with water, fire, earthquake, tsunami, explosion, whatever catastrophe, you will have another backup at another location for use. It's enough.

Separating your wallet mnemonic seed words and wallet passphrase backups can result in loss of one of them, and you will fail to make a wallet recovery.

How to backup a seed phrase?

Don't know why there are people making their life hard towards dealing this matter. If they really want to secure their passphrase then buy a vault then cement it on safe location in your house which other people hard to access.

If they are worried about possible calamities like their fire they should buy fire proof vaults to make sure that everything what they put including their passphrase is safe. With that I guess we don't give much stress on our self since we also not sure about the safety of other houses. That's why better think about better option and choose what's more convenient so that we don't have other thing to think about.