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points by cryptoegorophy 5 hours ago | 0 comments

not your keys not your coins...

Or if it is your key and your air-gapped hardware wallet gets hacked because someone didn't use the right RNG. Crypto is apparently never yours; you're just holding on to it for some future criminal or nation state.

[–] idiotsecant 9 minutes ago

It's bizarre how this is the new thing everyone has to echo whenever they see a crypto thread.

You can store crypto with zero risk of electronic access just using offline wallet generation and an offline wallet. It's not even hard.

[–] cryptoegorophy 5 hours ago

hardware waller is NOT your key too. YOUR key is the paper wallet generated OFFLINE on a clean laptop that was never connected to web. There is a giant difference.

[–] rationalist 4 hours ago

Your method does not protect against what the person you replied to, posted.

If your paper wallet, generated offline, used a bad RNG, it is just as vulnerable.

[–] addaon 4 hours ago

> YOUR key is the paper wallet generated OFFLINE on a clean laptop that was never connected to web.

That sounds like your housekeeper's key...

[–] nkrisc 2 hours ago

Commit it to memory, the original kind.

[–] wlesieutre 2 hours ago

And then make sure to never have any memory loss or you’ll lose all your money too.