Don't Leave Your Seed Where It Doesn't Belong

Don't Leave Your Seed Where It Doesn't Belong

Well, I just want to share what happened to me, about how I got into Bitcoin.

I was coming home from my night shift and as I’m driving up the street, I saw some guy leaving my house. When I got in, my wife was downstairs and awake, and I questioned her, but she said he was some friend from work, who had stayed over in the spare room, and it was all innocent.

I ran upstairs to find the spare bedroom untouched. As you can imagine, I was furious, but my wife was denying everything. It was blatantly obvious, but I didn’t know what to say or do.

Anyway, the night before at work, I had read this article about hardware wallets for bitcoins and cryptocurrencies. I had never been into Bitcoin, but I found it intriguing how you store your bitcoins on a hard drive type thing and you can send it anywhere for little cost.

Anyway, as I’m searching the bedroom, I found this piece of card saying 'Trezor' on it, and it rung a bell that it was the brand that does the hardware wallets.

On the card it had a load of random words, which I had no idea what they meant. I asked my wife but she had no idea and said I must have put it there. She was in denial, and I was fuming but always excitedly curious. 

I re-read the article and it said something about it being a seed, and being the keys to the vault, so I called my mate, who’s into Bitcoin and he explained exactly what it was.

I went around to his and tried the seed phrase on his hardware wallet, and the pin number and there it was 5.12 bitcoins! I couldn’t believe it!

I quickly learned about Bitcoin and have decided to keep the BTC for myself. Well, I sold most of it, but have kept it in another wallet I bought. I wasn’t sure if he had access to it still, so I just transferred it all out that day.

I never said a word to my wife, and then the other day she mentioned it saying her friend from work wondered if it had been found in the “spare room”, but I just said I didn’t know what she was talking about.

Anyway, we're going to split up, he's welcome to her and I would happily trade her for $35k!

The moral of the story, never leave your seed phrase where your other seeds have been.