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Nat Brunel has a promo code to get one for like 99 bucks

that's how evil capitalism gets you, huh, offering yah GOOD STUFF for JUICY PRICES.


to answer your question: I like it for what it does in my setup (first in-out, receive-send wallet) and that multisig/recovery layer over a hot phone wallet that I otherwise would have used gives me a lot of peace of mind.

I have not yet had to stresstest this (not recovered or lost my keys or hardware... yet) so I can't speak to how well it works.

What I really don't like is that I can't see UTXOs or choose from which ones it pulls. (There is a function to consolidate them, and with on-chain monitoring I can make educated guesses but still annoying). Basically any time coins have gone through my BitKey they're polluted from an on-chain surveillance point of view.

Oh, and the fee structure (probs a consequence of the multisig setup) makes it annoyingly expensive to transact (minimum 200-300 sats each tx).

But as a hardware wallet (again, replacing phone wallets or exchange) the BitKey is amazing... I'd def recommend it to newbies

Seeing the utxos would be classed as coin control, right? is that now a common feature on most hardware wallets?

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I can't speak to "most" (ask somebody who routinely uses more than the ~2-3 hww I've ever used), but it's a feature I feel pretty naked/blind without

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i feel like I should feel naked, and possibly even blind without it, but until now i have just made different wallets and named them to keep track, but i dont think that's quite the same thing

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