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 What's one piece of advice for someone who downloaded their first bitcoin wallet today?

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 Make sure you backed up the seed phrase 
 stack sats😅 
 dont sell. 
 use different wallets for different sources 
 Keep studying. You grow in conviction the more you study Bitcoin. 
 Try to loose some sats but try not too loose too many. 
 
Try @jimbocoin seed picker solitaire game as a how-to create bitcoin seeds out of a poker card set. You get the bitcoin seed out of a shuffled poker tab and that same can be later imported to the software wallet of choice. https://jimbojw.github.io/seed-picker-solitaire/seed-picker-solitaire.pdf There are other methods to acquire seeds out of irl randomness, such as dice or blindfolded choosing them. but the solitaire poker is a pretty nice and fun one.

Ideally you would like to pre-sign your transactions over an off-line device (such as coldcard or the mk3 or foundation devices) and then go to your online machine with the transaction already signed an ready to just be broadcasted. 
 Oops. Miss-typed about the off-line signers. Meant to write the @SeedSigner project, which additionally, is a DIY project cheap and pretty secure you could buy yourself but no much more a hundred bucks. 🤙  https://seedsigner.com/ 
 You can loose your phone but never ever loose your 12 words! 
 Practice your recovery procedure. 
 "What Bitcoin? I didn't practice my recovery process." is a lot more believable than a boating accident. 
 It takes time to accumulate SATS, be in for the long haul . 
 Set up your zap wallet on Nostr!!! 
 Ask questions!!!  There are so many people willing to help and answer questions. There is no need to struggle  alone 
 Keep your seed safe