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What Is A Seed Phrase?

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  What Is A Seed Phrase? A seed phrase, people may also call it as  recovery seed, recovery phrase, wallet backup, mnemonic seed, recovery key, seed key , etc., is a collection of words generated by your cryptocurrency that allow you to access your cryptocurrency wallet. In daily life, you may create a series of words to describe something, that's called mnemonic seed or mnemonic phrase. A seed phrase in a way is some kind of mnemonic seed. It is an ordered set of 12-24 words(such as "tear", "terrible", "street", "liberty", "pretty" ,or "candy" )that are randomly generated by your wallet. Your wallet also uses the seed phrase to create private keys, which can be used to send or spend your crypto. If you are unable to access your wallet because the wallet is misplaced, theft, or damage, a seed phrase can be loaded into any BIP32-compatible wallet to recover your funds. However, if you delete or lost your seed phrase and pri...