aantonop: Bitcoin Q&A: Are hardware wallets secure enough? Featured
Are hardware wallets really secure enough? Is the complexity of the setup and execution part of the risk model? What are the most likely ways that you will lose your bitcoin? What is the best way to store your mnemonic seed and passphrase?
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CORRECTION: At 9:13, I referred to paper as "Stone Age technology." While I was trying to convey the simplicity of the tool with such a phrase, this is not historically accurate as paper-making is not generally thought to have begun until thousands of years after the Stone Age.
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