Replying to Avatar π–‹π–Žπ–†π–™π–‰π–Šπ–“π–Žπ–Šπ–— (Β―`◕‿◕´¯)

You buying a Nuc to have it offline?
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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.

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π–‹π–Žπ–†π–™π–‰π–Šπ–“π–Žπ–Šπ–— (Β―`◕‿◕´¯) 2y ago

So you wouldn’t do what you suggested people do? πŸ˜†

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Bourbonic Plague 2y ago

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

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π–‹π–Žπ–†π–™π–‰π–Šπ–“π–Žπ–Šπ–— (Β―`◕‿◕´¯) 2y ago

Oh, then you should recommend trying Tails with electrum as a signing device πŸ˜‰

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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.