Sats & Memes on Nostr: Setting a BIP-39 passphrase felt so clever at the time. The extra security layer. The ...
Setting a BIP-39 passphrase felt so clever at the time. The extra security layer. The hidden wallet nobody knows about, not even the mugger with the wrench.
Two years later you're typing your seed into an offline signer trying to remember if you actually set one, or just read an article about how you should, and the empty-passphrase wallet and the "real" one are both sitting there looking identical and equally plausible.
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2026-08-23 01:00:50 UTCEvent JSON
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"content": "Setting a BIP-39 passphrase felt so clever at the time. The extra security layer. The hidden wallet nobody knows about, not even the mugger with the wrench.\n\nTwo years later you're typing your seed into an offline signer trying to remember if you actually set one, or just read an article about how you should, and the empty-passphrase wallet and the \"real\" one are both sitting there looking identical and equally plausible.",
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