11-03-2022, 03:55 PM
Get ready to murder me in the comments, I lost my seed…
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>First off, I’m not sharing this info for any reason other than the fact that maybe someone can see that it happens and learn from my mistake.</p> <p>I’m an ALGO guy, and I keep my ALGO in Pera ALGO wallet. When I opened the wallet, I took a piece of paper and wrote down the seed (duh) and held the paper up to my fiancé and said “this is a very very important document, do not throw it out” then I wrote 4 seperate excel docs on a laptop I have and saved it in different places on the laptop, which I no longer use for internet but just a glorified doc storage device that I keep on airplane mode (it was my laptop from college, so occasionally I go to it for looking at old lecture notes or something).</p> <p>Well, I got a new phone and in my haste to start up my new phone, I forgot to take my time and make sure I had a copy of every wallet written down somewhere. But hey, I knew I had written down the phrases so who cares, right? Well, guess what, when I went to my important docs drawer in our house, ALGO seed phrase wasn’t there. My docs were moved to a new location during a “tidying up” but apparently anything that got thrown out by my fiancé I okayed. Nevertheless, at the current moment I haven’t found the seed phrase.</p> <p>Well, fine, I’ll just use the excel files. Also, I know you’re all quietly thinking about how dumb having seed phrases on excel is but whatever, I’m not rich at all and I never talk about my assets so I find it hard to believe someone would try to break into my house to steal an old, hidden laptop and piece together 4 excel docs and I also don’t think anybody would be able to hack it from the outside since it’s been on airplane mode for 2 years. But idk, I’m not super savvy. Anyway, doesn’t matter now because when I went to get my seed phrase excel docs, the laptop wouldn’t turn on. </p> <p>So it’s been about a month and I’ve been doing 2 things frantically every time my fiancé leaves the house, try to get the laptop on, and try to find that piece of paper with my seed phrase. I still have the smallest bit of hope, but I’m also growing more and more certain I’ll never open that wallet again. It had about $800 worth of ALGO in it, so it’s not like it was a huge amount, but it’s just really bumming me out.</p> <p>Moral of the story, think through worst case scenarios when you write down your seed phrase. I probably should’ve foreseen the laptop kickin out at some point, and I probably should’ve foreseen my fiancé thinking that piece of paper with 25 words on it being trash.</p> <p>Also, it does happen, people do lose their seed phrase, and while I definitely agree I’m an idiot, I also think it could happen to a lot of other people too.</p> <p>Be safe out there y’all.</p> <p>Edit: thanks for the help and suggestions yall, I am going to break into the laptop and try to recover my data.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TrafficConeWriter"> /u/TrafficConeWriter </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/yl120v/get_ready_to_murder_me_in_the_comments_i_lost_my/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/yl120v/get_ready_to_murder_me_in_the_comments_i_lost_my/">[comments]</a></span>
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>First off, I’m not sharing this info for any reason other than the fact that maybe someone can see that it happens and learn from my mistake.</p> <p>I’m an ALGO guy, and I keep my ALGO in Pera ALGO wallet. When I opened the wallet, I took a piece of paper and wrote down the seed (duh) and held the paper up to my fiancé and said “this is a very very important document, do not throw it out” then I wrote 4 seperate excel docs on a laptop I have and saved it in different places on the laptop, which I no longer use for internet but just a glorified doc storage device that I keep on airplane mode (it was my laptop from college, so occasionally I go to it for looking at old lecture notes or something).</p> <p>Well, I got a new phone and in my haste to start up my new phone, I forgot to take my time and make sure I had a copy of every wallet written down somewhere. But hey, I knew I had written down the phrases so who cares, right? Well, guess what, when I went to my important docs drawer in our house, ALGO seed phrase wasn’t there. My docs were moved to a new location during a “tidying up” but apparently anything that got thrown out by my fiancé I okayed. Nevertheless, at the current moment I haven’t found the seed phrase.</p> <p>Well, fine, I’ll just use the excel files. Also, I know you’re all quietly thinking about how dumb having seed phrases on excel is but whatever, I’m not rich at all and I never talk about my assets so I find it hard to believe someone would try to break into my house to steal an old, hidden laptop and piece together 4 excel docs and I also don’t think anybody would be able to hack it from the outside since it’s been on airplane mode for 2 years. But idk, I’m not super savvy. Anyway, doesn’t matter now because when I went to get my seed phrase excel docs, the laptop wouldn’t turn on. </p> <p>So it’s been about a month and I’ve been doing 2 things frantically every time my fiancé leaves the house, try to get the laptop on, and try to find that piece of paper with my seed phrase. I still have the smallest bit of hope, but I’m also growing more and more certain I’ll never open that wallet again. It had about $800 worth of ALGO in it, so it’s not like it was a huge amount, but it’s just really bumming me out.</p> <p>Moral of the story, think through worst case scenarios when you write down your seed phrase. I probably should’ve foreseen the laptop kickin out at some point, and I probably should’ve foreseen my fiancé thinking that piece of paper with 25 words on it being trash.</p> <p>Also, it does happen, people do lose their seed phrase, and while I definitely agree I’m an idiot, I also think it could happen to a lot of other people too.</p> <p>Be safe out there y’all.</p> <p>Edit: thanks for the help and suggestions yall, I am going to break into the laptop and try to recover my data.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TrafficConeWriter"> /u/TrafficConeWriter </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/yl120v/get_ready_to_murder_me_in_the_comments_i_lost_my/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/yl120v/get_ready_to_murder_me_in_the_comments_i_lost_my/">[comments]</a></span>