Hacker News

points by masfuerte 5 hours ago | 0 comments

If you're concerned you can literally print your crypto keys onto a piece of paper. Maybe encrypted with a passphrase. It might get stolen or lost but it's not getting hacked.

P.S. If you're really paranoid don't use a network-connected printer.

[–] kart23 5 hours ago

how are you gonna use your paper keys when you want to spend some of your bitcoin? the private key has to touch a computer at some point.

[–] masfuerte 2 hours ago

You could treat them like bearer bonds. Split your holdings over multiple (like tens) of addresses. Sell individual addresses for cash. You'd need to do this via a trusted intermediary who could accept the cash and verify the address before making the exchange.

And yes, this is somewhat absurd. But so are online transactions that can be hacked with no backsies.

[–] janalsncm 5 hours ago

Security through decentralization, if there is such a term.

[–] wewewedxfgdf 3 hours ago

I'm not concerned because I have zero crypto because I would hate to be worried about being hacked to have it stolen.