Not a bad way to give friends or kids btcā¦kept off line til they ready for self custody with their own cold wallet device
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How do they get the Bitcoin off it?
I bought a couple and havenāt used them yetā¦also itās been over a year since I read up on them (so take this with a grain of salt) but if Iām not mistaken theyāre basically external storage that plugs into a usb port. A utxo is uploaded on to them. the signed utxo sits in external storage (offline and airgapped) waiting to be uploaded into another wallet (I think u can upload all or part of the balance/stored utxo)
Thatās prolly a pretty rough description but Iām technically retarded and itās the best I got without reading up on it. š¤·š½āāļøš«”
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Maybe we aināt smart
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Where is this pronoun field? Are your pronouns re/tard?
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A utxo isnāt āuploaded onto themā exactly, itās just a device that creates one single on-chain address and then reveals the private key when you break the thing
š«”thnxā¦so the entire utxo must be spent/transferred in a onetime use?
Should be yes. As soon as you break the thing you should sweep it into a wallet.
You CAN send multiple times to the same address and have more than one utxo on the same address, but thatās not gud 2 dew
Iām not sure if itās possible to spend only part of the utxo tbh. But donāt do that if it is
šš½Thnx for the info my fren
You can send change back to the same address youāre spending from but you definitely should not do dat
When I first ventured into btc I thought they sounded pretty useful from a stand point of an airgapped way to store fractions of an overall stack with no watch only wallet trail to said btcā¦Iāve just never gotten around to using themš¤·š½āāļø
Still I suppose if the regulatory environment here in the states ever got bad enough itās not a bad way to completely airgap ur sats/coins with no way to be doxed through an app/watch only wallet š¤ā¦even though the utxo hx would still be on the blockchainš¤·š½āāļø
I have given a few as gifts. I imagine theyāll all end up that way or potentially buying something cash peer to peer at some point
Not sure what you mean by airgapping in this context š¤
I think heās saying he doesnāt trust his softwares not to dox his xpub to the nodes it talks to for data, and saw open dimes as a solution
Thatās why you gotta run your own node!
Was just about to say as far as the dox part, definitely wanna run a node if that concerns hue (and it should so you should)
I do but thinking about switching to a start 9 system
I do (run a node) but I still figure watch only solutions like sparrow or nunchuck (esp nunchuck if u use a phone app) are weak links to identifying/doxing utxoās even if the private keys are stored off lineā¦am I wrong on this?
Except for occasional utxo management I only transact with lightning and even then itās primarily for orange pilling frenz (giving small amounts) and then to pay said frenz when I owe them for something like a meal if they prefer btc to cash (and they almost always do).