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While setting up my blockstream jade onto a new Electrum wallet, I noticed that I couldn't complete the jade final pin setup without an internet connection. Having used Electrum exclusively for years and never venturing to setup a hardware wallet on top of the software before, I found this really odd.

The jade is bluetooth disabled, set to USB only on local device. The failure came after the jade display of the seed phrase, the mandatory spot verification of the seed, and the electrum recognition of hardware and native segwit wallet. Clicking next, the jade wants to setup a final pin code which will be the means by which i login moving forward on this wallet. Upon entering and confirming the code offline, I receive an error notification after some time telling me that there was a failure connecting to a blockstream online address. Only after going online and entering my pin did it complete and allow me to finalize setup.

Should this be a concern? I'm not sophisticated enough in this tech to know if its necessary to do this with a hardware wallet that should be no-radio. #asknostr
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Dr. Bitcoin, MD 2y ago

Not sure. You definitely need to connect to internet if you are using the 2 of 2 multisig where @blockstream holds one of your keys…

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Bass 2y ago

Unless i am radically misunderstanding multisig, Im pretty sure i opted specifically for regular wallet with hardware device. My understanding of multi sig, though never implementing or testing is that it requires several passwords. My jade held my keys. To use the jade, simply required the 6 digit pin code to access the wallet. No other keys were used

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Dr. Bitcoin, MD 2y ago

Nah, you’re not misunderstanding. I use Blockstream green on iOS and that’s the only real choice (multisig vs. Single sig).

I don’t know much about the jade RNG…but if it’s virtualized somehow that’s 1) important to do right and 2) beyond me