Can movement become a language for Bitcoin backup?

A Bitcoin seed phrase is made of words from a fixed list of 2,048 (known as BIP39). The idea is to pair each word with a basic ballet move, so a phrase can be danced as well as written. We're writing the pairings down now, and there's still plenty to test: does every word have a move, can you always get back to the right word, and is it actually easy to use?

A growing collection of papers, books, history, tools and our own notes that shape the questions behind Ballet Mnemonics. Each one comes with a short note on why it matters to the project.

We'd like to teach a group of people their own step-and-word pairings, then check in over the following months to see what they still remember. Results will be shared here once the study has run and everyone involved is happy for them to be public.

Right now the focus is on writing the idea down clearly and sharing it openly. Next, we hope to work with universities, have outside experts test it, and build simple tools people can try — depending on who joins and the funding we find.

Ballet Mnemonics began with a simple question from the studio: if my body can remember a whole ballet, what else could it hold? Now it's time to share that question with researchers and builders.