"Require some basic knowledge of software". How did that work out for Luke? A basic offline single purpose signing device can help a lot of people not shoot themselves in the foot. They can still do it, but it helps lower the chances.
Luke is a really bad example for this.
  1. We still don't have the certainty that everything he said is true. Maybe was just a way to make "a boating accident"...
  2. Devs like that usually do mistakes
  3. Just because he's a bitcoin dev, that doesn't mean he cannot do stupid things or the methods are not good.
As I show that simple example with steganography. Try to take the BTC if you can. But Luke not even that he did... he kept all his (supposedly) BTC in just one place. As I recommended: use the 3 levels stash. And each level will have multiple wallets.
Please read the guide I linked above.
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I think steganography is awesome, but using a hardware wallet is a much more straightforward standardized process. Walking normy friends through steganography seems like too heavy a lift.
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Sure. I am not saying that normies should use my methods. Every user can use whatever method they are comfortable with. I only wanted to point out that not only a HW is safe. I see this trend pushed everywhere and new users think that is the only way.
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Totally fair.
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Thanks for the guide by the way. Book marked.
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