Hey r/Bitcoin,
After losing sleep over how to securely back up my seed phrase (especially when traveling), I had a weird idea:
What if I hid ALL 2,048 BIP39 words inside a normal-looking children's book?
So I wrote "The Adventures of Veit the Fox" – a 19-chapter adventure story about a fox’s adventures, published it, and had it delivered to me as a paperback. It reads like a normal kids' book, but every single BIP39 word appears naturally in the text.
How the backup works:
- Your 12- or 24-word seed becomes a list of page/line/word numbers
- Example: "abandon" → Page 12, Line 3, Word 5 → "12-3-5"
- The numbers look meaningless to anyone who finds them
- The book looks like an innocent children's book on your shelf
Why do I love this backup:
- Nobody suspects a children's book
- You can keep the book and numbers in separate locations
- Even if someone finds both, they don't know it's a backup
- Inconspicuous when traveling and crossing borders
I also created a word index PDF showing where each word appears, because without it it is extremely time-consuming to find the words.
Maybe this will be a helpful tip for you too.
Happy to answer questions about the process or the book cipher concept!
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