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Follow-up to my 551-question study: what the 429 'I have my backup and still can't rebuild my wallet' cases fail on. Your 12 words are 1 of 4 ingredients — one public key through the 4 standard script types gives 4 valid addresses, 3 of them showing zero balance with no error. A few weeks ago I posted my classification of all 551 questions in Bitcoin Stack Exchange's wallet-recovery tag. The number that surprised people: only 5 askers had lost a seed word. 429 said they had their complete backup and still couldn't rebuild their wallet. Several people asked what those 429 were actually failing on. Fair question. Here's what I can say and what I can't. First, the caveat, because it's real: this counts questions on a forum, not real-world outcomes. Someone who lost their seed entirely knows there is nothing to ask and doesn't post. So 5/551 does not mean losing words is rare in the world — it means it's rare among people who still have something to try.