#WIF is so much better and more sensible than #BIP39.
Why on *earth* maintain seperate backups for keys in steel? Why not simply "back up" the keys themselves on archive media?
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Fiat is the ultimate broken BIP39: a single point of failure called the Fed. They lose your wealth to inflation with zero quorum. No steel backups exist for purchasing power; it is systematically expropriated.