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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @LibertasBR 18 Aug \ parent \ on: Escape with your BTC embedding your secrets in media file | 402PaymentRequired bitcoin
In what sense? A layman's question.
I stumbled upon this research about steganography as a way to hide my keys from everyone's eyes as a backup. I was feeling like a genius like Elliot until I saw that this was a hot topic in 2022.
I learned about steganography in 2014 and start using it. I find it as a better way to hide wallets (as ek said plausible deniability) than a hardware wallet.
Yes, is not a perfect way to keep your cold wallets but is adding another level of protection, especially against threats like kidnapping, torture, house robbery. If a bad guy enters into your house and find your Trezor or whatever HW, definitely will know that you have a LOT of BTC. But if will find out only a bunch of family fotos (that are practically the "storage" for your stego-wallets) will not bother to give them attention.
I wrote about steganography in early 2020 in one of my oldest guides but many people ignore it until late 2022. Understandable, my guides cannot compete with the massive marketing for crappy hardware wallets (practically expensive toys).
If you do stego in the right way it could be a very good cold wallet. And there are many way to build your own plausible denibility on many different levels.
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I'm going to start using it. My intention is to put it online where I can recover it in case everything else goes wrong, my flash drives, my physical backups are stolen or destroyed, and as they said, plausible deniability.
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