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My friend keeps his seed phrase in the most bizarre and reckless way imaginable

175 sats \ 8 comments \ @Imyourfed 12 Nov bitcoin

So, a friend of mine, paranoid about his mischievous siblings leaking his wallet seed phrase (worth $3000 in BTC), came up with what he thought was a brilliant idea. He decided to use SimpleLogin (you know, that amazing email alias generator) to create 12 X.com accounts (formerly Twitter).

His "master plan"? Tweeting one seed phrase word on each account!

He proudly told me, “Now I can finally sleep stress-free!” 🤦‍♂️

To prove his "genius," he showed me three of the accounts — with the seed phrases tweeted in perfect order. And get this... none of the accounts are private!

How do I convince him he’s running for the title of "Stupidest Man Alive"? Or is it too late for him already?

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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bit_Alb 12 Nov

You can show him any similar fatal example from the past, where people did these kinds of stupid things and lost their money. He will probably be convinced in this way. Otherwise, keep Satoshi's statement in mind: “If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry." And save your energy for people who are open to learning and correcting their mistakes.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Imyourfed OP 12 Nov

I've shown him and given real examples of how people lost 30+ BTC just by keeping their seed on Email draft!

In his heart he knows the risk and knows he might be doomed someday (he said this to me while we were chatting!)

Also, he tells this to everyone and doesn't keep it as a secret (he has balls of steel lol)

43 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 12 Nov

Honestly - you don’t. He’s clearly thought about this and thinks it is a good idea. He will have plenty of time to think about it if/when it proves to be a bad one. Save your time and energy.

43 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 12 Nov

set aside the privacy problems, which I'm not your guy to explain, but just practically:

how would he keep the order intact?
wouldn't it be simpler/less leaky/less failure-prone to just memorize the words...?

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Dash_1971 12 Nov

Your friend would probably have been fine but for you doxxing his setup here and incentivising SN autists to scour Twitter for bip39 words. Accounts were probably made at a similar time and have a similar post count. Posts were probably made within a certain time zone. Don't even have a Twitter account so don't know how the search works. Probably manipulated by algos and no API access do despite your best efforts here your friend should still be OK, unless someone is an insider at X or has some kind of API access for some reason.

15 sats \ 1 reply \ @Imyourfed OP 12 Nov

Ah! He's fine and I have asked for his permission to post about this and find a more better solution. Also, I'm not the only one who knows about this, but the entire friend circle and his family. Few of them have also posted this on Reddit for fun too!

(HE KNOWS AND CAN SEE THIS SN POST ANY TIME BECAUSE WE BOTH ARE ON SN AND THIS POST WAS MADE AFTER TAKING HIS PERMISSION)

Thanks for your concern though!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @senf 12 Nov

Is there a reason he didn't just use a passphrase?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 12 Nov

How would anyone connect his 12 X accounts? Let alone know they have Xed his 12 seed words? Maybe a very secure way to go!?