New in the Sovereign Starter path: the recovery step.
The path promises you can lose a laptop and still reason about recovery. That depends on a backup, and a backup is only a copy of a secret. Recovery is the procedure that turns it back into keys, on a new device, under stress, maybe done by someone other than you.
What the words don't carry:
• A BIP 39 passphrase. Every passphrase makes a valid wallet, so a typo at restore just shows an empty one.
• The wallet definition: script type, derivation path, whether it was one key in a multisig.
• Labels. Bitcoin Core's own guide: "Metadata cannot be retrieved from a blockchain rescan."
Monero's 25-word seed and the 16-word form aren't interchangeable, so write down which one you have.
The drill: restore on a clean device, compare the first receive address, write down anything you had to look up, then wipe it.
Never type real seed words into a website, chat or "validator" tool.
https://cryptodecentral.co.za/notes/seed-backup-is-not-recovery
Path: https://cryptodecentral.co.za/guides/sovereign-starter
#bitcoin #monero #selfcustody
The path promises you can lose a laptop and still reason about recovery. That depends on a backup, and a backup is only a copy of a secret. Recovery is the procedure that turns it back into keys, on a new device, under stress, maybe done by someone other than you.
What the words don't carry:
• A BIP 39 passphrase. Every passphrase makes a valid wallet, so a typo at restore just shows an empty one.
• The wallet definition: script type, derivation path, whether it was one key in a multisig.
• Labels. Bitcoin Core's own guide: "Metadata cannot be retrieved from a blockchain rescan."
Monero's 25-word seed and the 16-word form aren't interchangeable, so write down which one you have.
The drill: restore on a clean device, compare the first receive address, write down anything you had to look up, then wipe it.
Never type real seed words into a website, chat or "validator" tool.
https://cryptodecentral.co.za/notes/seed-backup-is-not-recovery
Path: https://cryptodecentral.co.za/guides/sovereign-starter
#bitcoin #monero #selfcustody
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