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300 sats \ 35 comments \ @DarthCoin 3h bitcoin

I challenge the stackers to use their brain, to be inventive and learn how to hide their wallet seeds in plain sight, with plausible deniability.

Today I am asking you to take this challenge: write a nice / funny / drama / love story using 12 words as it could be 12 words from a wallet you want to save.

Imagine that this story you will put it on a postcard and send it to your mom / loved ones. Or even post it as a nostr note, in plain sight where NOBODY will suspect that in fact is a wallet seed.

You can even memorize this story and that's it, you will always have the wallet seed with you.

I did that myself multiple times, in many places and for more than 10 years, none of those places was compromised. Why? Because plausible deniability, simplicity not complexity.

The best voted 12 words story get 2100 sats.

Here is the BIP39 wordlist that you can use for this test: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/bip-0039-wordlists.md You can use also whatever other BIP, with 24 words if you like. For randomness, and test real life scenario, just open whatever bitcoin wallet and press "create new wallet" to generate new set of words and use those ones.

WARNING! DO NOT USE REAL WALLETS WITH FUNDS IN THIS FUN GAME! USE YOUR BRAIN, NOT SHITGPT!

hardware wallets shills, please hold your horses, this challenge is to make people use their brains not their money

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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @softglitter2d 23m

Mom,¹

We accepted the resolution beneath a blanket of silence, in the name of peace, a scary version of it. They said it's our citizen duty to turn bitcoin into ETFs, for the glorious battle. We (I, you, almost everyone) said this is good, the immense loss of everything. This giant elephant in our room was too big and we accepted it.

Yet, they're still fighting, the self-custody culture remains. With a tired wink, a man whispered to me The ones holding keys, hold THE truth. His words were a cannon against lies.

I remember this, when I wake up. I tell myself softly, we're not legends but subjects of freedoms, we need breathing, we whisper always for more.

Yours,

Your ghost

I must say...this reminds me of prompt words challenges that Wordpress used to make in the past. I never thought to use like this my words. The 12 words are marked like this, inside the story in a order combined by an order that I'm comfortable with. ↩

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin OP 20m

good one, a longer letter to your mom, excellent. Thanks for participating in this challenge, is a good example for newbies to see that is not so hard to use words.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @softglitter2d 17m

I tried something longer but as you cleared in the comments, something that I can recall and take with me. Funny how easy solutions are the path to complex issues.

100 sats \ 2 replies \ @ladyluck 27m

Suddenly, the deep space rocket began to shudder violently. A brave human pilot was ready to feel the impact. This unusual alien energy, a total mystery across the vast expanse, would arrive soon.

Keywords ---- Vast, space, rocket, arrive, brave, human, feel, unusual, alien, energy, total, mystery

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin OP 26m

wow this is cool

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ladyluck 24m

Thanks it took a while but it was worth it, got to learn about the BIP 39 wordlist

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @anon 2h

I’ve been trying to think of a way to pass down 12 words through oral tradition (a song or story) in such a way that it can survive intact for a couple hundred years. The 12 words would be the key to a couple utxos that are unable to be spent until those couple hundred years have passed.

Trouble would be to have enough redundancy built in so that it can survive generations of the “telephone game” but also not be too obvious or a computer will grab those utxos as soon as they are spendable. Might have to figure out a way to pass down a passphrase on metal that would be the final key to unlocking it.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin OP 2h

hahaha who knows, maybe @carlosfandango's daily haiku contain the words to a wallet ?

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 24m

I don’t know. Hidden in plain sight…. I have played around with book ciphers and even had a look at a couple of your articles where you have hidden them. It’s not a huge number of variations in a haiku or short phrase and assuming you could easily find the 12-words then it’s just a case of trying all the permutations.

I think that’s 1,352,078 variants and that doesn’t feel like enough 10-years hence.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 2h

interesting idea, a song for generations !

10 sats \ 3 replies \ @Entrep 2h

Man alone, window view, bleak autumn; nothing will change, always eternal sadness

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 2h

Is good, but you can extend it to form a nice phrase, not like a poetry. So you can add some more words in between. Just useing them like that is obvious that could be a seed. Imagine you have 12 words and you want to hide them in a letter to your mom. Your mom doesn't have to know what is inside, but will keep your nice postcard. Someday, you will need those 12 words and could call your mom and ask her to read it for you...

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @Entrep 2h

The MAN ALONE stared through the WINDOW VIEW at BLEAK AUTUMN leaves. He whispered, "NOTHING WILL CHANGE." His ALWAYS ETERNAL SADNESS deepened with each falling leaf.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 2h

Good one, really nice story. And quite easy to remember...

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 1h

Sow the seeds like trees. Live forever free and work like bees.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 19m

Is nice, but limiting to just 12 words is too obvious when is about to "hide in plain sight".

0 sats \ 7 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 2h

I always wondered about this but never asked or Googled it. Figured now’s a good time. Do seed phrase words gotta be from that official list, or can they be just any random stuf, even made-up words like 'dysgduyugy'?

21 sats \ 6 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 2h

must be from the words lists. Think about this experiment as a training for yourself.

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 2h

Is there any legit reason for that limitation?

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 2h

As I said, you can use any BIP words list, not only BIP39. The reason is that I want people to train themselves like it would a real case situation when they have to hide a seed into a letter, a story, that nobody could even think that it contain 12 important words.

And do not have to be in the right order. The order of the words is known only by you.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 2h

My question’s not about the story, it’s about a real seed phrase situation.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 2h

As I said, just open whatever wallet app and create a new wallet seed. An empty wallet just for this test.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 2h

Maybe I should just make a post about my question. Someone might know!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 1h

If you use random words and some of them are not from that words list, you may end up in having an invalid wallet seed. NEVER start a new wallet seed with words that YOU choose. The probability that somebody else use them too is higher the the entropy of a wallet app.

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0 sats \ 7 replies \ @SwapMarket 2h

Don't write stories with your seed words. AI will guess them eventually.

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 2h

go ahead! try it. On my nostr in over 7000 notes there are 12 words. I have also over 30000 posts on SN, and they also contain 12 words from a 1BTC wallet. And AI is just a bubble, a myth, just other people data.

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @SwapMarket 1h

You mean sequentially in the right order?

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 1h

That is for you to find out. Why would I make your life easier? Plausible deniability is quite powerful, right?

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @SwapMarket 38m

If they are not sequential and in order than I too can say my texts contain seed phrases to multiple wallets.

Plausible deniability means you keep a 12 word seed in a safe to a fake wallet, but remember 13th word in your head to your actual stash. I don't understand what you mean here.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 36m

plausible deniability also means: even if you find / choose 12 words, you still don't know if are the real ones.

You can play with this scenario at infinite levels. I can put 12 words that you will find them, but then those 12 words could also hide another story that goes to the real seed... and this can continue on and on and you will never know where to stop.

33 sats \ 1 reply \ @SwapMarket 20m

12 words mnemonic either derive private keys with non-zero balances, or not. Derivation path is also a variable, but if you choose non-standard one you risk forgetting it.

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