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konajonah16h ago
maybe I've just finally gone off the deep bend but I think I'm ready to go back to paper wallets. This s*** getting out of hand. In fact, I don't know why I ever used anything other than a paper wallet to begin with. The more I read into this stuff and people debating between software wallets and hardware wallets, the more that I realized that paper wallets really just are the best solution. You can do pretty much whatever you want with the paper wallet. It's dirt simple dirt cheap. The only reason I ever thought that hardware wallets were cool was because you could password protect your key so that if someone steals your hardware wallet they still can't access your seed. But with the amount of hardware wallet hacks that I've seen and with how many times I've had to deal with hardware wallet being so paranoid that it ended up deleting my seed for apparently no reason (thankfully I had a paper backup but at that point why the f*** am I using a hardware wallet? If I need a paper backup anyway?) I've just come to the conclusion that I should go back to pencil paper and a set of balanced dice. There's nothing stopping me from only storing a password encrypted version of my seed to get most of what made me consider a hardware wallet in the first place.
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Max8h ago
If someone finds your paper, you loose the secret. The hardware wallet is secure even with physical access of the attacker. Also a paper cannot produce a signature, so at some point you must import it to a computer, and that better be secure.
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