I’m a little burnt out on explaining how to get started holding your own keys.

What would you say to this Canadian woman to help her setup a wallet to buy 0.1337 BTC?

What wallet would you recommend and what video would you send her to explain how to use it?

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Since she is Canadian can't you recommend Bulls Bitcoin?

One of the follow-ups I plan on building now that WhyBitcoinOnly.com is finally live:

A similar resource compilation dedicated to explaining importance + walkthroughs on self-custody.

Main reason why I didn't include this in V1?

I am very, very embarrassingly bad at the entire technical/security aspect of #Bitcoin. Much more of a big picture, psychological/philosophical brain myself, so I didn't want to get too out of my comfort zone while curating a guide.

Bookmarking this to observe recommendations!

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First I would send her here:

https://bitcoiner.guide/beginner/

Bitcoinq&a also does 1 on 1 sessions.

Wallet depends on a lot of things, hard to reccomend without knowing circumstances.

Send her to Bull Bitcoin Brad.

https://www.bitcoinsupport.com/#buy-for-a-friend

BTCsessions is for hire from his website

The bitbox opensource cold wallet is pretty simple for new bitcoiners. Bitcoin only.

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Start with Blockstream #Green app. Perhaps half in a single sig. wallet (that's normal compared to other wallets). The rest can go into a multi-shield wallet (multi-factor authentication).

When she's comfortable with that, buy Jade hardware wallet. Create a new wallet there (single sig) and consider sweeping all funds out of the mobile/desktop Green to the Jade, and then using the Jade's support for BIP85 to derive new keys (seed mnemonics) to re-initialize the mobile wallet(s).

This allows one to consolidate multiple wallets on one top level seed (backed up on a suitable metal mnemonic storage device. (The BIP85 derived seeds can be re-derived for any future recovery).

[Tip: you can also derive additional secrets via BIP85 — for instance to generate #NOSTR nsec/npub identities].