Most people already learned to stop using general purposes computers for Bitcoin.
Get a real hardware wallet.
"Collide+Power: Leaking Inaccessible Data with Software-based Power Side Channels"
Most people already learned to stop using general purposes computers for Bitcoin.
Get a real hardware wallet.
"Collide+Power: Leaking Inaccessible Data with Software-based Power Side Channels"
"NOOOOOO! YOU NEED 2 LAPTOPS AND 53 CD-RW's TO EVEN THINK ABOUT SECURE BITCOIN!" - Some moron with a Chewbacca pfp whose name I forgot.
I think it’s important to recognize that all self custody solutions have trade offs.
HWWs are great for many people but they come with privacy risks.
HWWs are physical, easily identifiable devices. For those who are nomadic, possession of one quickly doxxes you to people like border guards, hotel maids, girlfriends, etc.
Buy a HWW online? You’re in many databases if you use your address and credit card.
Of course, some HWW have additional security risks (unverified random number generators, software updates, hot connections to potentially compromised computers, etc) that many plebs don’t realize.
Anyway, I consider self custody to be an unsolved problem. We don’t yet have good UX for easy, private, and secure self custody with inheritance.
This is the only guide I know that actually suggests using a CD
Wouldn't you need physical access to make the power reading needed for this attack? And if the attacker has physical access, do they not also then have access to your plain text seed stamped in steal?
Geo-dispursed multi-sig is the only reasonable approach I've seen to mitigating physical access of advanced attackers, because it would require the attacker to compromise multiple physical locations.
Reserved the Q1 for my first hardware wallet. Using muun and stacking in swan currently. Any advice other than learning the cold card tutorials before?