This is an opinion editorial by Wartime Microchad, a contributor to Bitcoin Magazine.
Introduction
Since the introduction of Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 39, Bitcoiners have had the ability to recall the information necessary to recover bitcoin funds stored on-chain using plaintext words. But it’s not easy to memorize – and then reliably recall at a later time – 12 or 24 unrelated, non-contiguous words, which means that most people make and store physical backups of those words instead of committing them to memory.
