have you ever tested your crypto recovery plan from a blank device?

Most crypto security advice stops at storing a seed phrase safely. That protects against one failure, but not the day when a phone dies, an exchange account is locked, a hardware wallet breaks and nobody else knows what belongs where.

A usable recovery plan should answer a few boring questions.

Which wallets are hot, cold, watch only, or contracts?

Which device holds 2FA and what happens if it is gone?

Can you revoke active wallet and exchange sessions from somewhere else?

Does a trusted person know where instructions are without having access today?

Can you rebuild the transaction history needed for taxes or an insurance claim?

Have you actually restored a small test wallet from the backup?

The strange part of self custody is that preventing theft and recovering access can pull in opposite directions. More secrecy can also create a single point of failure.

I think a small recovery drill once or twice a year is more useful than adding another security app and assuming the plan works.

What part of your setup have you actually tested rather than just documented?