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> Most people think it is as easy as ordering a hardware wallet ... I also don't understand why some folks are so attracted to a custom hardware device. It's s

> Most people think it is as easy as ordering a hardware wallet ... I also don't understand why some folks are so attracted to a custom hardware device. It's straight-forward to grab Bitcoin software from Github, put it on an air-gapped laptop via USB stick, run it and generate a new pubkey, write down recovery info and bury in backyard, send btc to that pubkey, and done. https://github.com/bitcoin https://github.com/bitcoin

JonathanBeuys 4y ago
The pubkey is only secure if the software you downloaded from GitHub, all its dependencies, GitHub itself and all its dependencies, your Browser and all its dependencies and your OS and all its dependencies were neither faulty or malicious at the time you created it. Otherwise the pubkey might have been created in a way that makes it easy to guess for someone in your supply chain.