What Is a Seed Phrase? The Master Key to Your Wallet
A seed phrase is 12 or 24 ordinary English words that back up every private key in your wallet. Lose them and you lose your crypto — share them and someone else owns it.
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A seed phrase is 12 or 24 ordinary English words that back up every private key in your wallet. Lose them and you lose your crypto — share them and someone else owns it.
Both 12-word and 24-word seed phrases come from the same BIP-39 word list, but 24 words carry roughly 2.3x more entropy. The real risk is losing them, not the length.
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