A recovery phrase you read out to someone

Gone the moment you do it

Recovery words are not a password sitting on top of a wallet. They are the wallet, written down. Say them aloud, paste them anywhere, and the person on the other end owns what you own.

Osiris market addresses

osiriseultmx3so5ef6ayasy4kdyekbywr7pyggpmjazeogxoyaodsyd.onion

osirislivpetlbabbl3zzqhupurfkxxbzbheu3bkrshkaiwg2hcxbyqd.onion

osirisydmlx47esm6ylhzhtnjrucgnymi7beqoyzze5jn3opbr3zy4id.onion

Printed as supplied, in no order. Nothing here is watched or timed, so an address that loads is not proof of anything. More about the set

1.The words are the account

A password protects an account that exists somewhere else, and it can be changed because the account outlives it. A phrase works the other way round. The wallet is derived from the words, and there is no record of ownership behind them for anyone to edit.

So this page has no window in it. By the time you reached the last word, or pressed send, the second copy existed. Everything after that is somebody else's decision about when to use it.

Window opens: It does not. The words work the moment they are known.
Window closes: Before you reach the last word.
What closes it: Disclosure. Nothing else has to happen.
Still possible after: Move whatever the phrase controls into a wallet made from new words.

Worth stopping forNobody needs your recovery words. Not staff, not a support agent, not someone restoring your access, not a wallet checker. No legitimate process anywhere begins with another person reading your phrase. The request is the whole of the evidence you need.

2.Why the harm is finished before anything moves

The usual comfort is that nothing has happened yet. The balance is untouched, so surely there is room to deal with it. That reads it backwards. Control was lost at disclosure. What has not happened is the other person acting, and that choice belongs to them.

This is the quietest settled thing on the site. Things people are sure they can undo collects the rest, and none of them look this harmless while they happen.

Read nextThe six things that close a windowDisclosure is one of them, and it is the fastest.

3.The staff request that is never a staff request

The approach is polite and procedural. Someone claiming to be staff says the account needs restoring, and the phrase lets them fix it. It sounds like the dull administrative step real systems are full of.

The same shape turns up elsewhere. A one-time code you handed over has a narrow window still open. A password typed into a copy of the site can still be answered by changing something quickly. This page is the version where neither is true.

4.What people are certain can be undone here

That a phrase can be made invalid afterwards. There is no revocation. The words derive the wallet, and they always will.
That nothing happened because nothing moved. Ownership changed at disclosure. The balance is a separate question.
That deleting the message removes the words. It removes your copy, and a phrase is short enough to be remembered.
That a phrase given to real staff is safe. Real staff never ask, so the premise has already failed.

5.What to do first, and what it will not fix

Create a new wallet from new words, generated where nobody is watching, and move everything the old phrase controls into it.
Treat the old wallet as belonging to someone else, because in every practical sense it does.
Write down how the request reached you. The shape of it is what you will recognise next time.

A phrase is short enough to memorise on first reading.

Twelve or twenty-four ordinary words are not a long secret, and whoever received them does not need to keep a file.

Which is why moving the funds is the only response that means anything. The rest is tidying.

6.The only defence that ever worked

Refusing. Not refusing carefully, not asking who wants to know, just refusing however reasonable the request sounds. A rule applied without thinking is the only kind that survives a bad evening, and bad evenings are when these requests arrive. Where you started matters too, which is why the addresses page makes no claims about any address on it.

Also usefulA password typed into a copy of the siteThe near neighbour where acting quickly still changes the outcome.

Questions people send in

I gave the words but the balance has not moved. Have I got away with it?

You have time, not a reprieve. Use it to move everything into a wallet built from new words. Waiting to see is a decision to let someone else pick the moment.

Can the phrase be reset or replaced?

The phrase cannot. The wallet can be abandoned, which is what a new one amounts to. The old words keep working, so leave nothing there.