Why am I experiencing a mnemonic seed recovery failure? What are derivation paths? Is there a security risk for watch-only wallets with the master public key? Is there a security benefit from splitting funds between multiple hardware devices and seeds?

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0:00 Is there a way that I could verify that my receive address is linked to my mnemonic seed? Is it possible that my wallets are malfunctioning?
4:59 How do you know which derivation path is used by your wallet?
6:28 How do you find the correct receive addresses?
7:01 Is it possible that the wallet takes multiple days to update the balance?
7:41 Is there a security risk in monitoring the balance of funds on a hardware wallet with a watch-only client using the master public key?
10:01 Is there a security benefit to splitting funds between multiple hardware wallets or multiple seeds?

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