New Mnemonics For Memorizing Bitcoin Seed Phrases

New Mnemonics For Memorizing Bitcoin Seed Phrases

While you might only know seed phrases as 12 or 24 words, there are a variety of ways for humans to memorize information.This is an opinion editorial by Thorbjørn König, a principal product designer with a sole focus on creating great user experiences for bitcoin products and services. One of the more curious features of bitcoin is that if you are able to memorize 12 or 24 words, known as a recovery phrase or seed phrase, you can essentially hold your bitcoin in your head.The motivation behind creating a mnemonic phrase, complementing the existing and not so human-friendly, binary and....


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