Nostr Web Client

For about the price of a Coldcard and minimal accessories for it, you can get a barebones Nuc and 16GB of RAM and use it to practice setting up an air gapped signing computer.

There are risk trade offs for every approach, but if you have tried a bunch of dedicated hardware devices and you haven’t tried using an air gapped PC running tails with no storage devices or networking, it’s probably worth spending a couple hundred dollars to play with some configs that are possible using that approach too.

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𝖋𝖎𝖆𝖙𝖉𝖊𝖓𝖎𝖊𝖗 (¯`◕‿◕´¯) 2y ago

You buying a Nuc to have it offline?

Bourbonic Plague 2y ago

I bought one a while back and played with it before installing a 2TB NVME and turning it into a node that’s much more performant than the Raspberry PI 4 that it replaced. At the time buying a new PI would have cost me more than the Nuc did. I think PI prices are down a bit since then, but the performance of a Nuc relative to a PI is worth any premium IMO.

Note: I wouldn’t have converted it to a node and put it online if I had ever exposed my real private keys to that machine. I only used it to play with toy keys and to test various options for manual keygen etc. Trusting real private keys to general purpose computers is risky enough. Doing that and then connecting that device to the internet later is way more risk than I’m comfortable with.

𝖋𝖎𝖆𝖙𝖉𝖊𝖓𝖎𝖊𝖗 (¯`◕‿◕´¯) 2y ago

So you wouldn’t do what you suggested people do? 😆

Bourbonic Plague 2y ago

I suggested people understand what the options are. I didn’t recommend they use it as their primary approach.

𝖋𝖎𝖆𝖙𝖉𝖊𝖓𝖎𝖊𝖗 (¯`◕‿◕´¯) 2y ago

Oh, then you should recommend trying Tails with electrum as a signing device 😉

Bourbonic Plague 2y ago

You should also use it to do this and countless other things:

https://armantheparman.com/dicev2/

Feel free to recommend whatever you like.

𝖋𝖎𝖆𝖙𝖉𝖊𝖓𝖎𝖊𝖗 (¯`◕‿◕´¯) 2y ago

I have every single wallet existed today 😆