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Jonathan Pollack

Seedless is safer

Losing your seed phrase is perhaps a bitcoiner’s biggest fear. And for good reason. When seed phrases came into existence more than a decade ago, they were a vast improvement in user experience compared to managing raw private keys—strings of hex buried in files or password managers. They...

Tessa Pettman

Beyond the seed phrase: Why we built Bitkey

In 2013, seed phrases were a major step forward — replacing private keys and their unwieldy string of numbers and letters with a simple set of real words. They made recovering lost wallets easier and helped bring self-custody to more people. But today, they remain a single point of failure and...

Jason Karsh

What do you mean, ‘There’s no seed phrase’?

Three routes to recovery are better than one high-value hide-a-key. You know that spare key your neighbor has, hidden under the mat or a fake rock or in a combination lockbox, in case they get locked out of their home?  That’s basically what a seed phrase is: a high-value...

Max Guise

Building better bitcoin self-custody

Bitkey roadmap update, April 2025 Bitcoin custody has always been defined by tradeoffs. Privacy, safety, and usability have been inextricably linked, forcing users to choose which qualities matter most to them, index on those qualities, and put up with compromise on the others.  Most single-sig hardware offers good privacy, but...

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