Recovery seed - I’m sure I’m missing something but can’t find an explanation

[forgi]

Most unlikely thing in the world or trezor glitch?

There is 1 in 256 chance that a completely random 24-word seed phrase is valid. So it’s definitely not a “statistical impossibility”. It seems you are slightly confused as to what it means that a seed is “valid”. There are 2^256, or 115792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564039457584007913129639936, possible wallets in total. That is a little less than the total number of atoms in the observable universe. When Trezor is generating a seed, it randomly picks one of these wallets. …

@Frypto

And theoretically, the Recovery seed for the model T, with only 12 words, would be less secure than a 24 word seed.

no, it’s not

24 words seed question

Safe enough so that it is not feasible to brute-force your wallet, even taking into account quantum computers and any foreseeable technological advances. Using a 24-word seed doesn’t have any practical advantage, but it’s more words to store and takes a longer time to restore. The only reason T1 defaults to 24 words is to protect the Standard Recovery, so that if an attacker knows the list of words you use, it is also impossible for them to brute-force the correct order. This issue does not ex…