Keeping your seed phrase safe is extremely important, and most times it’s really hard safe guiding. When I started storing my seed phrase, I thought using my email was the best medium to protect my seed phrase, but then I reasoned the different risks involved in storing your seed phrase or password key using your email. Your email could get hacked, your email could get banned and your password will be lost forever. I thought of printing it paper, but then, you have to be careful not to lose it.
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Some wallets need just the seed phrase or private key to get access to your account for instance, the Trustwallet app, the Metamask wallet and other DEX wallets. So having your seed phrase or private key out there is a risk, while some wallets or accounts like Hive not only requires your private keys but also requires your username. I think the most preferred one is the Hive wallet, because I can write down my private keys any where and display it without any concern and still feel that my wallet is safe because I didn’t write down my username. You see, you can have any hiver’s keys, but without the username the keys are useless, so you can choose to store your keys anywhere but don’t input the username, the moment you input the username, you are giving the this thief all the access they needed to invade your wallet and take all your money. You are exempting the username because that is the only piece of information you can remember because, you chose it.
Its not wise to of course keep your keys carelessly but when keeping your keys exempt the username, your keys are useless to them if they dont know your username, but not a lot of DEX wallets give this opportunities, they dont let you choose a username or let you choose your seed phrase or private key. Now imagine a world where we can choose these things, your seed phrase, this way you dont have to write it down because its in your head. You can choose any format you like, as long as you can remember it. With seed phrase you can decide to use names of the people that are most precious to you or the things that are most precious to you to form a seed phrase, then private key, you can decide to use the first letters of the things that are most precious to you. This way, you can remember them and not lose them easily.
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