LogoLogo
Go to Bitcoin Support Home
Coldcard Hardware Wallet
Coldcard Hardware Wallet
  • Why we recommend Coldcard
  • Guide Overview
  • Wasabi Wallet companion app
  • 🏰Security Overview
    • Is Coldcard secure?
    • Securing the wallet: overview of the basics
    • How people lose their Bitcoin
  • 🔐Create your wallet & backup
    • What you need
    • Initializing the device
    • Coldcard PIN Overview
    • PIN Steps
    • Updating the Firmware
      • Verifying the Firmware
    • Wallet backup basics
    • Create Wallet backup
      • Dice Roll Method (optional)
      • MicroSD backup (optional)
    • Seed XOR (optional)
      • Steps for Seed XOR
      • Restoring from Seed XOR
    • Passphrase Overview
    • Steps for adding a passphrase
      • Lockdown Seed
    • Installing Wasabi Wallet
      • Verifying Wasabi Wallet
    • Connecting to Wasabi Wallet
      • Air-Gapped Coldcard (optional)
  • ⛓️How to use Coldcard with Wasabi Wallet
    • Steps for receiving Bitcoin payments
    • Steps for sending Bitcoin
      • Privacy/Coin Control
      • PSBT Method (optional)
  • 🏹More Features
    • PIN Security Features
    • Power & Login
    • Address Explorer
    • BIP-85 Wallets
      • Using BIP-85 with Wasabi
  • ⚠️Summary
    • DO's & DONT's
Powered by GitBook
On this page

Was this helpful?

Export as PDF
  1. Create your wallet & backup

Steps for adding a passphrase

PreviousPassphrase OverviewNextLockdown Seed

Last updated 3 years ago

Was this helpful?

  1. Write down the passphrase you want to use before entering it in your computer.

  2. Select “Passphrase”.

  3. Select the following:

    • Add Word

    • You will have a selection of words to choose from, taken from the .

    • Select at least 4 different words, and choose up to 12.

    • Find the word you want by first selecting its first letter. You will also have the option to add a space before or after the word and if you want to use upper or lower case letters.

  4. Once entered, select “APPLY”.

  5. A new wallet identifier, also called a fingerprint, will be created. Note this down.

  6. Press on the check mark.

You must enter the passphrase each time you want to access the passphrase-protected wallet, else you will be in the default, or passphrase-free, wallet.

🔐
BIP39 wordlist