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Managing your own keys is stressful. You go around worrying that the hardware has failed or that the seed words won't work. Never again.

• _heimdall 2y ago
  Legitimate question (I expected this will read poorly). If you don't trust that seed phrases, which are a fundamental piece of how bitcoin key pairs are designed, will work why would you ever consider investing in bitcoin? I totally get the stress of self custody. I just don't get why anyone that stressed about it would bother buying bitcoin.
  • Kiro 2y ago
    To make money, but it's not that I don't trust the technology. It's more that I don't trust myself. Maybe I wrote them down incorrectly or did some other mistake? I also once lost the paper after moving (but found it again), even though I was sure i had put it in the new safe.
    • gedy 2y ago
      I think this is the key thing I wasn't considering - I think of Bitcoin as primarily way to save currency, whereas a lot of people are treating like an investment for trading.