An entire industry today lives from a natural skill we all human beings have: Memory

How to remember by yourself, instead of storing away into a hardware wallet your seed phrase with a classic simple method?

Initially there were paper wallets which one could print and store, the industry saw the opportunity and created the physical hardware wallets to store your private keys securely outside the Internet that we all use today.

So far so good but, as always every precaution is not enough and it is necessary to add another layer of security, this layer is what I call the 'mnemonic layer’.

The Mnemonic Layer

This is where the research on ancient methods of memorization comes in. In order to be able to travel safely wherever one needs to go without needing anything more than one's own brain.

Among the ancient methods of memorization we have the 'classical school' method based on memory palaces or Roman 'LOCI', in which images are visualized and placed in known architectural spaces for quick memorization because by reusing spaces already memorized in the past the memory can be maximized.

In our case, we prefer the second school of memorization, the 'Scola Lulliana' based on the methods of the classical Catalan philosopher and thinker Ramon LLull, precursor of digital information systems and modern Artificial Intelligence already in medieval times.

Memory systems based on Lullian ideas

The method we present is a personalized method, based on Lullian concepts. In the Lullian case we are going to simplify the memorization system to a minimum of elements.

• 3 figures - Circle, Triangle, Square

• Letters that will be used as storage variables

• Lists of letters and Objects containing these lists

In effect, the secret of using the 'Lullian method' equals to memorize 6 listed objects formed by 4 words each, for a total of 24 words.

We will use only the 'classical memo-technique' at the time of compression. At that moment, for each set of 4 words we will 'imagine' a clear, strong and vivid single image representing the 4 words together under one letter. Here each person will have to use imagination to abstract the addition of 4 different words into that vivid and clear image. By 'repetition' these images will be stored with time in the long term memory for future use.

Example of 24 word BIP39 mnemonic

• boss rural month arm-exit elegant eight grain-palace biology pistol control (12 words)

• outside album slab top-boil absorb tree mean-street giggle head frozen (12 words)

Let's see the 'mental code' we can create to store the 24 seed words autogenerated by a standard physical wallet.

// const A =  My24SeedPhrase 
const A =  [    {b : [boss, rural, month, arm]},
    {c : [exit, elegant, eight, grain]},
    {d : [palace, biology, pistol, control]},
    {e : [outside, album, slab, top]},
    {f : [boil, absorb, tree, mean ]},
    {g : [street, giggle, head, frozen]}
]

Remembering the 24 words

Once these 6 images -objects- containing 4 words have been created, they will be saved under a letter each one of them.

To recall them just think of the letter and a vivid image will appear automatically representing the four 'decompressed' words like magic.

By repeating the same process for the 6 letters we will be able to regenerate the 24 secret words seed phrase creating our crypto wallet seed phrase.

This is the best way to store this type of information.
With just a little practice one can be sure no matter what happens the keys are safe in your brain!

Not your keys Not your crypto

I hope you will find this system useful,
just by practicing you will be able to see how it works easily in less than 24 hours.

More information about 24 Words Seed Phrases

• How to generate / create own custom 24 word mnemonic seed phrases

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• What is a Seed Phrase? / Coinmarketcap