aantonop: Bitcoin Q&A: Are hardware wallets secure enough? Featured

  • Friday, 01 February 2019 18:00
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? More on Trace Mayer's monetary sovereignty initiative: https://www.proofofkeys.com/ 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. This question is from the January monthly subscriber session, which took place on January 26th 2019. If you want early-access to talks and a chance to participate in the monthly live Q&As with Andreas, become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/aantonop RELATED: How do I choose a wallet? - https://youtu.be/tN6b62sEpsY Secure, tiered storage system - https://youtu.be/uYIVuZgN95M Hardware wallets and attack surface - https://youtu.be/8mpDcBfNA7g Setting up secure storage devices - https://youtu.be/wZ9LxLLvfXc What is a private key? - https://youtu.be/xxfUpIV9wRI How do mneomonic seeds work? - https://youtu.be/wWCIQFNf_8g Using paper wallets - https://youtu.be/cKehFazo8Pw Wallet design and mass adoption - https://youtu.be/WbZX6BDZJHc Cryptographic primitives - https://youtu.be/RIckQ6RBt5E Public keys vs. addresses - https://youtu.be/8es3qQWkEiU Re-using addresses - https://youtu.be/4A3urPFkx8g Passphrases and seed storage - https://youtu.be/jP7pEgBpaO0 Coin selection and privacy - https://youtu.be/3Ck683CQGAQ Multi-signature and distributed storage - https://youtu.be/cAP2u6w_1-k Nonces, mining, and quantum computing - https://youtu.be/d4xXJh677J0 Is quantum computing a threat? - https://youtu.be/wlzJyp3Qm7s Spam transactions and Child Pays For Parent - https://youtu.be/t3c0E4fkSNs Orphan blocks and stuck transactions - https://youtu.be/MsdW0CTYwyY Miners, pools, and consensus - https://youtu.be/JHz7LM4ncLw Software distribution security - https://youtu.be/_V0vqy046YM Protocol development security - https://youtu.be/4fsL5XWsTJ4 Geopolitics and state-sponsored attacks - https://youtu.be/htxPRTJLK-k Sanctions and censorship resistance - https://youtu.be/DeXe5eGRl7E How to get people to care about security - https://youtu.be/Ji1lS9NMz1E Honest nodes and consensus - https://youtu.be/KAhY2ymI-tg Why running a node is important - https://youtu.be/oX0Yrv-6jVs Wallets, nodes, and monetary sovereignty - https://youtu.be/8Hb3tUn8s4E Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a technologist and serial entrepreneur who has become one of the most well-known and respected figures in bitcoin. Follow on Twitter: @aantonop https://twitter.com/aantonop Website: https://antonopoulos.com/ He is the author of two books: “Mastering Bitcoin,” published by O’Reilly Media and considered the best technical guide to bitcoin; “The Internet of Money,” a book about why bitcoin matters. Subscribe to the channel to learn more about Bitcoin & open blockchains; click on the red bell to enable notifications about new videos! Would you like to help me translate these videos into other languages? Follow this link for instructions on subtitling: https://antonopoulos.com/video-translation-subtitle-initiative/ MASTERING BITCOIN, 2nd Edition: https://amzn.to/2xcdsY9 Translations of MASTERING BITCOIN: https://bitcoinbook.info/translations-of-mastering-bitcoin/ THE INTERNET OF MONEY, v1: https://amzn.to/2ykmXFs THE INTERNET OF MONEY, v2: https://amzn.to/2IIG5BJ Translations of THE INTERNET OF MONEY: Spanish, 'Internet del Dinero' (v1) - https://amzn.to/2yoaTTq French, 'L'internet de l'argent' (v1) - https://www.amazon.fr/Linternet-largent-Andreas-M-Antonopoulos/dp/2856083390 Russian, 'Интернет денег' (v1) - https://www.olbuss.ru/catalog/ekonomika-i-biznes/korporativnye-finansy-bankovskoe-delo/internet-deneg Vietnamese, 'Internet Của Tiền Tệ' (v1) - https://alphabooks.vn/khi-tien-len-mang MASTERING ETHEREUM (Q4): https://amzn.to/2xdxmlK Music: "Unbounded" by Orfan (https://www.facebook.com/Orfan/) Outro Graphics: Phneep (http://www.phneep.com/) Outro Art: Rock Barcellos (http://www.rockincomics.com.br/)

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