How to use your metal backup plate:
- Get your seed phrase that you’ve hopefully written down on a piece of paper
- Get your SX6 steel backup plate, marker pen and centre punch
- For each word in the seed phrase, use the marker pen to mark the the first four letters of the word in the corresponding column. For example, for the first word “super”, mark the letters 1. S, 2. U, 3. P, 4. E in column one. Do this for all words in your seed phrase
- Check and double check that you have marked all letters correctly. Test your backup by restoring to a new wallet using your seed phrase if you want to be doubly sure that your backup is correct.
- Using the automatic centre punch, carefully punch the centre of each marked letter into the metal plate. Engrave or write a note into the notes area of the plate. You can use the centre punch to scratch a note.
- You’ve done the hard part. Now put the plate into a paper envelope and finally seal it within a tamper evident bag.
- Make a note on the outside of the tamper evident bag and make a note of the unique number on the outside of the bag somewhere safe. You can use this number to make sure that no one has tampered with the bag.
- Put the backup somewhere safe. A fireproof safe, a lock box but not your sock drawer.