How Does Your Seed Phrase Work?

What do you know about your seed phrase, except that it is to be shared with NO ONE? Kyle Thornton, our US & LATAM Regional Head of Customer Success, walks you through what exactly is your seed phrase, and how to make sure it is secure - so that your crypto assets remain… yours.

[marcoaurelio]

This is the best explanation of the seed phrase anywhere.

[LRPMQLRPC]

Very interesting, I think every crypto investor should have this knowledge at a minimum.

[SeyDav]

Finally... I understand!
I was always confused, how can a seed phrase that is generated in the initial phase recover accounts that are created later? It never made sense to me until seeing your video!
Yes... Love this. Big thanks!

[_Cryptotruth_]

Thanks for your contribution to the crypto community. I still have many questions, but this video gives me the initial info for me to map out my security behavior journey.

It’s people like you that make the world a better place!

[Craig.Martinez]

Awesome video. I loved the detailed explanations!

[jmsargent]

Excellent video with concise explanations. Thank you!

[NewYorkCity]

I literally thought the seed phrase unlocked keys stored on Ledger servers or something. I really appreciate the explanation.

[medeirs]

This video is very informative and Kyle is soo kind !!

[DJToaster]

I think i finally understood how all of this works. Thanky you Kyle and team for bringing this awesome series to youtube. Since i purchased my ledger i can finally sleep at night. I was always worried about leaving coins on an exchange or even a hot wallet.

[sebastianschaer]

Great explanation of the seed phrase concept! Thank you!

[tyice]

Thanks this really helped me understand how it all works

[cmdbond]

huge thanks for explaining this topic, helped me a lot

[lawrenceuk]

Huge kudos to the people who came up with the idea (and implementation) of the heuristically determined wallet - over the previous JBoK ("Just a Bunch of Keys") wallet that we had at the beginning...

[hellominions]

Brilliant explanation, really helped me. Thanks very much.

[yceraf]

thanks for this explanation, hard to find a technical explanation

[ViajeroTemporalOficial]

This video is very informative. I have a question. This might be a stupid question, but I really want to know the answer to it. When we buy a trezor or ledger hard wallet. How do we know those companies don’t know the seed phrases. Because their device was the one that generated my seed phrase or private key. So how do I know they don’t have my seed phrase?

[a.Milk]

I have always wondered how the seed phrase protects against the credential and makes ones crypto’s investment safer

[lxpjzqm]

This was amazing, i was so confused on how the account creation/generation actually worked on chain.. perfect explanation, thank you!

[lxpjzqm]

Im a little confused on how ledger live reads the public key or address without compromising the safety of the private key. Ledger live shows my account balance without having my ledger connected so it is storing the address and public key correct? But ledger live never stores the private key right? So the only way to send a transaction out of the ledger live would be if the ledger device is connected right? I just want to make sure that ledger live is only storing the public key and address and not the private. Thanks

[JanekWerbinski]

So is 24 words seed has1, 45E+76 possible combinations?