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Is there a guide for making a cold wallet with Apple sillicon

1419 sats \ 8 comments \ @mateusdeap 27 Mar bitcoin_beginners

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So, I usually read @DarthCoin's excellent guides and one among them is how to set up a cold wallet with TailsOS and a USB stick.

My question is simple, actually: TailsOS does not work on ARM processors. Right now I absolutely cannot afford to buy another computer, used or otherwise. Are there any good ways to setup a cold wallet using the arm macbooks? I was thinking of using maybe NixOS or even Asahi, but since TailsOS has all these security features, I was unsure about it.

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274 sats \ 1 reply \ @pillar 27 Mar

If you can't afford another computer, I would say a hot, passphrase protected wallet in your laptop should provide a reasonable amount of safety for the size of your stack.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin fwd 27 Mar

I concur with this. Keep it simple.

235 sats \ 1 reply \ @034b483ee7 27 Mar

See this article. It should work on the mac.
Bitcoin and Cold Storage using VeraCrypt

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin fwd 27 Mar

This is nice.

130 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin fwd 27 Mar

Are there any good ways to setup a cold wallet using the arm macbooks?

Another option is to create a new wallet, save the seed and the xpub into a password manager (Keepass or Bitwarden) and save that password manager db onto an encrypted USB. You can encrypt the USB drive with your mac.

Now, you can use that xpub (only for deposits) in any other wallet app that support watch-only: Electrum, Sparrow, Bluewallet, Sentinel, Green wallet etc

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @mateusdeap OP 27 Mar

Huh. That's actually a nice idea. I'll try that then. Thanks a lot!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin fwd 27 Mar

was explained in one of my guides too

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @pbl_again 27 Mar

there are some good tutorials adjacent here: https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information/recommended-wallets.html and here https://github.com/lnbits/hardware-wallet.