Backing up your seed phrase

A seed phrase backup is an offline copy of the words that lets you restore your wallet when a device is lost or broken.

What it means

One copy in one place can be lost to fire, water, fading ink or a move, so many people keep two copies in two separate safe places.

What to watch

Whether every word is there, numbered and spelled right, whether paper or metal suits the place, and whether a photo, cloud file or email copy exists by mistake.

How Compass-Alpha uses it

Background only; not used in any figure on Compass-Alpha.