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- Category
- Seed Phrase Backup
- Entity
- Not verified
- Official website
- coldbit.com
Independent rankingchecked How it works
Details
Scored 71 out of 100 under methodology 2026.10.18, from the evidence read in August 2026.
Coldbit Steel
Stamped steel seed backup plate
Seed Phrase Backup
#3 Overall
Ranked #3 of 7 seed phrase backup in the published ranking
71
ChainChoice Score
The ChainChoice Score, shown against 100: published scores run from 41 to 99.- High evidence confidence
Is Coldbit Steel right for you?
Right for you if these matter most
- Whether someone neutral actually destroyed one8/10; the category best is 9
- What you can store and recover9/10, the category best
Look elsewhere if these come first
- Where the fire number comes from6/10 here; SEEDPLATE 24 Words scores 10
- Whether the real landed price is on the page6/10 here; Hodlr Shield — Stealth Titanium Heart 24 scores 10
Not yet tested for your country. Markets it lists: Europe, United States, Canada, Australia, Asia, Middle East & North Africa. Restricted: Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam.
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The rank above is the published one, the same for every reader. Find my best seed phrase backup shows where it lands for you.
What will Coldbit Steel cost you?
Not priced on this basis
How this is calculatedHow safe is Coldbit Steel?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read August 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
Alternatives to Coldbit Steel
Compare all 4- 2SEEDPLATE 24 Words7 points above · stronger on rating provenance (10 against 6)78
- 4Hodlr Shield — Stealth Titanium Heart 245 points below · stronger on landed price transparency (10 against 6)66
- 5CRYPTOTAG Zeus7 points below · stronger on independent destruction test (9 against 8)64
For your setup
Find out if Coldbit Steel fits you
The rank above is the published one — the same for every visitor. Answer the category's questions and this section shows where Coldbit Steel lands for you, which criteria your answers weight up, and which stated needs the record does or does not meet. The published rank stays beside it.
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Why this rank
Why Coldbit Steel ranks #3
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (23.6 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest. Best in this ranking on 1 of 4.
4 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
358+8.968.09#2/7Loading evidence…
246+4.613.010#3/7Loading evidence…
239+6.626.09#1/7Loading evidence…
186+3.466.010#4/7Loading evidence…
Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−7behind SEEDPLATE 24 Words, #2
RobustnessHoldsacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 69–73 and stays #3
Evidence4 of 4 scored4 quoted, 4 with a source link
What would move the rank
Each line is the ranking run again with one of Coldbit Steel’s criterion scores changed and every other value held: the smallest whole-point change on that criterion that moves its rank, and where the re-run puts it. Up to 4 climbs and 3 falls are listed, smallest change first. Nothing here is a forecast.
Whether someone neutral actually destroyed one 8 → 5 on its ladder · Hodlr Shield — Stealth Titanium Heart 24 passes it−365#3 → #4
Where the fire number comes from 6 → 2 on its ladder · Hodlr Shield — Stealth Titanium Heart 24 passes it−465#3 → #4
What you can store and recover 9 → 5 on its ladder · Hodlr Shield — Stealth Titanium Heart 24 passes it−465#3 → #4
Strengths
2 from the score dataWhere it leads
Best for readers who weight
- Whether someone neutral actually destroyed one — 8/10, category best 9/10
- What you can store and recover — 9/10, the category best
Tradeoffs
2 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- Where the fire number comes from — 6/10 against a category best of 10/10
- Whether the real landed price is on the page — 6/10 against a category best of 10/10
Record watch-outs
- Hand-stamping full words is the most robust format here and the most punishing to execute - the cheaper €69,00 variant ships with "No Stamps No Jig", so the usable configuration is €89,00. Lopp's note on the included stamping aid, on his review page, was that the $5 stamping plate he bought on Amazon was far superior to it. Its straight-A grade is also seven years old and the vendor does not mention it.
Competitive position
Where Coldbit Steel leads and where it trails
Rank on every objective dimension among the rows scored on it. A criterion in the top third of its pool is listed as a lead, the bottom third as a trail; the middle is neither. Popularity, size and commercial terms are not dimensions.
Availability#7 / 712.0 of 20 · best 14.0
Published criteria#3 / 717.7 of 30 · best 19.5
Friction#1 / 72.7 of 10 · constant here
Trust record#1 / 73.2 of 8 · constant here
Measured data#1 / 78.3 of 18 · constant here
Where Coldbit Steel leads
- Whether someone neutral actually destroyed one#2 / 7
- Where the fire number comes from#3 / 7
- What you can store and recover#1 / 7
Where it trailsNo criterion in the bottom third of its pool.
Closest alternatives
The 3 nearest rows by score
Nearest by published score in either direction. Each card states the criteria on which the two rows differ and the cost difference under the same scenario inputs; the compare arithmetic below shows why the higher one ranks higher.
Hodlr Shield — Stealth Titanium Heart 24#4 of 7 · score 66 · 5.0 points behind
Coldbit Steel leads on
- Whether someone neutral actually destroyed one8 vs 5
- Where the fire number comes from6 vs 3
- What you can store and recover9 vs 6
Hodlr Shield — Stealth Titanium Heart 24 leads on
- Whether the real landed price is on the page10 vs 6
Largest single reason Coldbit Steel is ahead: published criteria (+10.7 display points).Scenario cost: Hodlr Shield — Stealth Titanium Heart 24 has no verified pricing for this scenario.
SEEDPLATE 24 Words#2 of 7 · score 78 · 7.0 points ahead
Coldbit Steel leads on
- What you can store and recover9 vs 7
- Whether the real landed price is on the page6 vs 5
SEEDPLATE 24 Words leads on
- Where the fire number comes from10 vs 6
Largest single reason SEEDPLATE 24 Words is ahead: availability (+5.2 display points).Scenario cost: SEEDPLATE 24 Words has no verified pricing for this scenario.
CRYPTOTAG Zeus#5 of 7 · score 64 · 7.0 points behind
Coldbit Steel leads on
- Where the fire number comes from6 vs 3
- What you can store and recover9 vs 4
- Whether the real landed price is on the page6 vs 3
CRYPTOTAG Zeus leads on
- Whether someone neutral actually destroyed one9 vs 8
Largest single reason Coldbit Steel is ahead: published criteria (+12.7 display points).Scenario cost: CRYPTOTAG Zeus has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Against the leader
81 vs 71 · gap 10.0Why BitBox Steelwallet ranks above Coldbit Steel
The compare workspace's arithmetic applied to these two rows. Each dimension's share of the gap is its weight × the difference, on the displayed scale — it reproduces the displayed gap of 10.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisBitBox SteelwalletGap share
Availability · 23% weight12.014.0−5.2, worse
Published criteria · 35% weight17.719.5−4.7, worse
Friction · 12% weight · constant here2.72.7same
Trust record · 9% weight · constant here3.23.2same
Measured data · 21% weight · constant here8.38.3same
Published criterionThisBitBox SteelwalletPoints
Where the fire number comes from · w2469−2.30, worse
What you can store and recover · w2396+2.21, better
Whether the real landed price is on the page · w18610−2.30, worse
Net7181−10.0
Your scenario
Coldbit Steel is not priced for this scenario
The published device price, paid once. Excludes shipping, duty and any replacement. Change an input and every figure recomputes from the published rate; the published rank does not move.
price, once · default scenario — set your own
Rate read from the provider’s published pricing ↗ on 27 September 2026.
price, onceCost is stated as price, once in USD; it is never a yield, never annualised, and it does not enter the score.
Not priced on this basis
Under the default inputs · USDCategory medianNot priced0 of 7 rows priced
Cheapest pricedNone pricedDifference not stated · availability not applied — set your country to filter
7 of 7 rows in this ranking have no verified rate for this scenario and are absent from the median, not counted as free.
Evidence
Evidence read 6 August 2026
One row per published criterion: the page each strength was read from, its source type by domain, the reading date and whether the file and the published table agree. Open a row for the quote and the receipt.
4 of 4 cells scored
Score evidenceVerified4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from receipts
4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from a quoted, sourced receipt equal to the published strength.Public receiptsReading…4 quoted with a source URL
The receipt file has not been read yet.Evidence confidenceHighcoverage and corroboration, never freshness
4/4 criteria scored, with 4 dated sources quoted.RobustnessHoldsrank #3 across every one-point re-run
Whether the position holds when one criterion score is changed by one point and the ranking is run again. It is always a re-run of the ranking, never an estimate.The newest evidence read on the platform is 3 November 2026; this category's reading is older. The scores stand as read on 6 August 2026.
Reading the evidence ledger…
CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
Whether someone neutral actually destroyed onestrength 8 · weight 35Report an error—6 August 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Where the fire number comes fromstrength 6 · weight 24Report an error—6 August 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.What you can store and recoverstrength 9 · weight 23Report an error—6 August 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Whether the real landed price is on the pagestrength 6 · weight 18Report an error—6 August 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
- Key failure: your own keys are made, shown or recovered unsafely.Scored by Whether someone neutral actually destroyed one · 35% (Coldbit Steel 8/10)Scored by What you can store and recover · 23% (Coldbit Steel 9/10)
- Information failure (Coldbit Steel 6/10): the number is wrong or bought, or your data leaks.Scored by Where the fire number comes from · 24%
Every failure family that applies to this category is scored. Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: Whether the real landed price is on the page (18%).
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- Not readable on 2026-10-28: Walled: coldbit.com/products/coldbit-steel answered HTTP 429 (Shopify bot limit) to every request on 28 October 2026, repeated with pauses. The cell keeps its last real read. Last readable on 2026-09-27: "Regular price €89,00 EUR" for the "A-Z Stamps + Jig Included" variant and "€69,00" for "No Stamps No Jig", with "Taxes included. Discounts and shipping calculated at checkout." (fetched 27 September 2026; unchanged since 6 August 2026). Normalised to one usable unit on 2026-09-27: €89,00 including tax, because the €69,00 variant ships without the stamps needed to mark it; shipping is additional and unquantified on the page. Both variants carry availability http://
schema .org /InStock in the page's structured data, at "price":"89.00" and "price":"69.00", priceCurrency EUR, and the storefront record coldbit-steel.json lists them at 89.00 and 69.00; the "Sold out" string on the page is the theme's price-badge template, not this product's state. New since August: a site banner "Attention U.S. Customers: Review Current Tariff Information" links to coldbit.com/pages/u-s-tariff-information (fetched 27 September 2026), which states that "as of April 2025, Coldbit collects U.S. import tariffs at checkout for all orders shipped to the United States" and that the U.S. de minimis exemption "currently DOES NOT APPLY", so the U.S. landed price exceeds the page figure by a duty shown only at checkout. The store's own country/region selector offers 28 countries; see countryAvailabilityNote.Coldbit Steel — official pricing page ↗ · 27 September 2026 - Prices published in
- USDColdbit Steel — official pricing page ↗ · 27 September 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- partial
- Regulatory note
- Not published
- Supported chains
- Multi-chain
- Markets served
- europe, us, ca, au, asia, mena
- Primary markets
- Not published
- Restricted markets
- Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam
- Operating limits
- Not published
- Availability note
- SELLS TO 28 COUNTRIES ONLY, read from the store's own country/region selector on the product page on 2026-09-27: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong SAR, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States. Confirmed live the same day against the store's cart shipping-rates endpoint: Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam each answered "Country/region not supported", while Germany, Czechia, Singapore and Norway were quoted a FedEx Express rate and the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates were accepted pending a state or region. U.S. orders: "as of April 2025, Coldbit collects U.S. import tariffs at checkout for all orders shipped to the United States" (coldbit.com/pages/u-s-tariff-information). The shipping-policy URL (coldbit.com/policies/shipping-policy) returned HTTP 404.
No confirmed legal entity is on file for this record. Nothing is inferred from the brand name.
If something goes wrong with Coldbit Steel: where to complain, and where to report a scam
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How this page is reviewed
Reviewed means this product in this category was read against its sources on or after that date; every ranked category is re-read at least every 45 days. Models research, extract and parse. A deterministic engine ranks. Every quote passes an adversarial refute pass.
Accountable for this review: Mathias Siemonsmeier, Founder.
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History
What the record carries
Changes to published ranks are recorded in a ledger; every step and its cause is listed on the rank-history page. The entries below begin with the current verified snapshot, then the methodology versions whose changes applied to this category, newest first.
9 methodology entries
- 6 August 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.10.18Score 71, #3 of 7. 4 of 4 criteria scored. History starts here; earlier values are not interpolated.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.8When nothing serves your country, the list shown for reference is the published ranking · platform-wide- fixed The reference list shown when nothing serves your country is the published order with the published scores, and a build check now fails any such list out of that order or with a score the ranking does not publish.
- fixed The explorer prints an overall rank only for a row the published ranking holds; a country entrant such as Coinbase Commerce for US merchants shows no overall rank.
- changed Published orders do not move. Country results change only where nothing serves the country: in India bill pay keeps Bitcoin Well first and now shows Strike second, as published; 35 such runs across all categories and countries now match the published list exactly.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.7Forty-one more products are offered only where their own quoted terms serve- fixed 141 country exclusions on 31 rows, each the name of a country the row's own quoted terms exclude: for example Mercuryo Hungary, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Chile, Colombia and Morocco; Gemini Custody the United Kingdom, Australia and the EU after its wind-down; Backed xStocks the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, Nigeria, the Philippines and Venezuela.
- changed Thirteen rows list the only countries their terms serve: Coins.ph the Philippines, Spritz bill pay, Brex, Unchained, WisdomTree, Franklin BENJI and AnchorWatch the United States (with its territories for AnchorWatch), PRYPCO Mint the UAE, N26 crypto seven EU countries, Gemini Tokenized Stocks the EU, XNET the US, Canada and the UK, Coldbit Steel and MetaMask Card the countries they list.
- changed Published (no-country) orders do not move. Country results change: in India six categories each lose one row (bill pay, cards, off-ramps, P2P, seed backup, tokenised real estate), and bill pay there has no row confirmed available, so it shows the published order marked as such; country pages list 23 fewer rows (24,357 to 24,334). The grounding test now matches full country names in any case, which shows seven earlier exclusions were quoted all along: the named debt of unquoted exclusions falls from 40 to 33 pairs.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.6A criterion you require re-scores the rows that meet it · platform-wide- changed The explorer sends each criterion you require, at any band, as fit_required with your other answers; region, licence, chain and fact filters stay filters. On /best, a required criterion joins For you as a marked preference does, which needs your country; Overall stays the published ranking, filtered.
- added Every published criterion has a golden case as the explorer sends it (require:<criterion>), so the order a requirement gives is replayed and gated as the published order is, and a change to it needs an entry here.
Methodology 2026.10.18, the same published run every visitor sees · receipt seed_backup:coldbit_steel:2026.10.18:3d71ac7925aa
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