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Jeff 21d ago
What’s your favourite hardware wallet & what wallet do you currently have your eyes on? #asknostr
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Thekid.99921d ago
I just got a coldcard and it the best. I been missing out for years because well i was haha I have my eye on the coldcard Q
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Jeff 21d ago
I’ve been looking at the coldcards lately, but also looking at the new Trezor
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Mananguri21d ago
All my Bitcoin is committed to the lightning network.
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177621d ago
I like CC MK4’s. No battery. Air gapped. Cloneable. Built like a Nokia phone. I’d like some suggestions on any other signing device that ticks all those boxes, to add some more variety and minimize supply chain risks, and to act as equally solid units for multisig. I haven’t seen anything I like that ticks all the boxes and doesn’t have some feature or form factor that I dislike.
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Jeff 21d ago
What are your thoughts on trezor 7 bitcoin only wallet?
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177621d ago
I just don’t like the fact that it isn’t airgapped, there’s no SD card option, you have to rely on a proprietary companion app to access all the features, it has an integrated battery and charging system, and it is expensive.
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Jeff 21d ago
Valid points. I agree, $409 is kinda ridiculous.
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177621d ago
I need to do more research. I’d like to have more diversity in the whole stack. But you can clone two CC MK4’s for redundancy for about the same price plus your SD cards, and have two identical units that can sign on the same set of addresses, but are in two separate offsite locations, so you never have immediate signing capability at home. Ideally I think one offsite lockable location with video surveillance and one offsite lockable location like a small fire safe that’s in the possession of an armed friend with a safe word to let him know you’re coming to his place under duress. It’s a pain in the ass when you want to sign transactions or update firmware, but that’s the point. Onchain transactions should be minimal anyway aside from UTXO consolidations. But ideally any attacker would never even get a chance to find out all your stuff is offsite cause they’d be pepper sprayed and full of buckshot or the focus of an armed standoff with LE before they found out. Having a border wallet address that you can sweep to is good, as long as you delete the db file off your software. You can access it and sweep it back later. A redundant offsite Linux laptop with the OS loaded on an encrypted volume is a good idea.
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Jeff 21d ago
Hardcore setup you got there, I need to up my game 🤣
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177621d ago
If you don’t want to mess around with multisig but still eliminate a single point of failure on the whole stack, you can also just split your stack across X pairs of cloned devices. Oh yeah and don’t forget offsite location 3 for locked and tamper evident plates with your forever seed backups on them. I vacuum seal the steel plates for protection against the elements and bury them in those little 9x6x5 pelican cases with a lock on them. Just have to make sure they can’t be found by anyone but you and your heirs and that you can always get to them. It’s easy if you have land. Another thing I like about cloned signers is that even if you do keep on at home, you could crush it underfoot or throw it on the neighbours roof if you needed to, and you’d still have a cloned one somewhere else.
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177621d ago
Yeah I figure might as well go overkill now rather than scramble when we 10x and I realize the whole thing is riding on a single signing device and single set of steel backups. I can’t wait to go to a garage sale years from now and find a set of seed plates that the person’s relatives have no clue what they are.
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