Wow! This is incredible feedback.
I love hearing about your process, especially the part where you had a valid checksum but no sats in the wallet. This tells me to be sure to share the address so you can verify your work.
Your time and effort represent an immense show of appreciation. If you think this is a good way for beginners to learn about self custody / wallet recovery, share your experience and episodes ๐
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That's another good one, sharing the addresses. It just so happened that this 8th wallet didn't update the past UTXO's properly (my fault). But I did check addresses and recognised one of them!
Also the ability to check if the sats were still there helped to motivate me to try again after a couple hour break ๐
Even having to look up words on the bip39 word list could lead you down a rabbit hole if you've never heard of a seed phrase before. Depends a bit on the target audience of course, not sure if your audience is people who don't know about self custody. But even checking a bitcoin address on mempool.space is already very interesting if you never did that! (That's actually how I learned about UTXO's!). It took me quite a while to go from self-custody to understanding what a UTXO is for example.
For me, it was just a very exciting treasure hunt. And actually a meaningful prize (I'll share why in a DM if you like ๐). It's weird maybe, but you and uncle will be living in a strangers head for a long time with a warm feeling ๐งก