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363 sats \ 4 comments \ @OT 1 May bitdevs

I'm looking for ideas about the practice of recovering a wallet offline. This is just to practice the recovery method in an offline environment without any intent to use, just to know that you are able to access it at a later date. Retrieving a matching master fingerprint would give confidence that you're able to recover cold wallet funds when needed.

Using a hardware wallet like the Q4 Coldcard with its keyboard makes typing out passphrases a lot easier. Some of the other HWW make this quite time consuming when you need to navigate character by character.

The easier way would be to have a computer with Sparrow or Electrum installed that doesn't connect to the internet. Do you this might not be as secure?

I think recovering a multisig would require using a computer anyway right?

Thoughts?

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47 sats \ 2 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 22h

I’ve thought about using Sparrow on a device that’s offline but that requires trust that a device with an antenna cannot connect to the web by itself and log keystrokes or something.

For recovering a wallet 100% offline, I use a SeedSigner so I know that it CANNOT connect to the internet at all.

I wrote an article about this actually: https://www.whatisbitcoin.com/security/recover-your-bitcoin-wallet

Thoughts?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT OP 22h

I might have to try Seedsigner. I have a Pi4 which I hear you can do it on.

80 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 22h

I think you can but the Pi 4 has antennae so you have to trust that it can’t phone home.

You don’t have to trust boards that don’t physically have the hardware to connect to the internet.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lazy_AMA 1 May

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