account ยท post 04 of 7 in this channel
The recovery phrase is the only copy of your WTN market account
It appears on one screen, during a process you are rushing, and it is the most important thing on this site.
the three wethenorth market addresses
hn2paw7zfvndw3dovycegeqmvvnf4pl67b3g2p7pohjlzavloosh73id.onionhn2paw7zrgujyhnt6mgxlt2q6uhgbke4itpqitxhyfbumq3wtnckbuyd.onionhn2paw7zadwkcra3qzv5e4q547i7e5lvxm62cfxqftuqdu7moiu2ceyd.onionprinted the way they were handed over. no labels, no numbering, nothing here says which one to try first. this feed never opens them, so it has no status light, no percentage and no date of checking to give you.
what it is
A string of words, usually several of them, generated when your account is created. Sometimes called a mnemonic. It is not a password and it is not a hint.
It exists to prove you are the owner of the account when the password alone cannot. Since there is no email on file, it is the entire recovery mechanism.
why so many people lose it
Timing. It appears in the middle of registration, when you are focused on getting to the other side, and it looks like one more screen of text to acknowledge.
It is also unremarkable to look at. Nothing about a row of ordinary words signals that this is the single point of failure for everything that follows.
And there is no second chance. Close that screen and it is gone. The market does not show it again, because a system that could show it again could show it to someone else.
writing it down properly
Word for word, in order, spelled exactly. Order matters. A phrase with two words swapped is not a slightly wrong phrase, it is a wrong one.
Check what you wrote against what is on screen before you leave the page. Read it back in reverse order, which catches transposition in a way reading forwards does not.
Then close the screen deliberately rather than clicking through it.
where to put it
Somewhere offline is the conventional answer, and it is conventional because it is right. Paper in a place only you go to. Not a note that syncs. Not a message to yourself.
Not a screenshot, for reasons the post on the screenshot goes through in detail.
And separately from your password, if you can manage it. Two things in one place is one thing.
who is allowed to ask for it
Nobody. Not support, not an administrator, not a vendor, not a message that arrives sounding urgent and official.
The market does not need it, because the market generated it. Anyone asking for it is asking for the account, and that is the entire meaning of the request.
This is the one rule in this channel with no nuance attached to it at all.
It is also the rule most reliably tested. The request tends to arrive dressed as a security check, at a moment when something has already gone slightly wrong and you are inclined to cooperate with whoever seems to be helping.
The dressing is the tell. Real systems do not ask you to hand back the thing they gave you to prove you are you.
replies
a reader askedI closed the screen without writing it down. What now?
the answerYou are running an account with no safety net. If the market lets you regenerate a phrase from inside your account, do that now. If not, the honest advice is to treat this account as fragile and not to leave anything valuable sitting in it.
a reader askedCan I store the phrase in my password manager?
the answerYou can, and it puts your password and your recovery in one container. That is convenient and it removes the independence that made the phrase useful. Some people accept that trade knowingly, which is different from stumbling into it.
a reader askedIs the phrase the same as the withdrawal pin?
the answerNo, and they get confused constantly. The pin protects a specific action and the phrase protects the account itself. The post on the withdrawal pin separates them properly.
what this post is not Not a recovery service. Nothing on this site can regenerate, look up or restore a phrase, and any site that offers to is offering something impossible.