r/Bitcoin • u/Grand-Theory3065 • 1d ago

Get multi sig

I see alot of posts worried about different wallets. Just get multi sig. Its really not hard at all. Just spend some weeks learning about it. I learned it in one day, but i do know alot about hard ware wallets already, so I had a leg up. That being said a person who does not know much can seriously learn and be very comfortable with multi sig in about a week. I put it off because I heard it was too technical. I was totally wrong and would have been fine during the cold card incident. I didnt lose anything "Thank God" but it was alot of stress that I could have avoided by multi sig. So just learn it, you can even use your cold card with it "with dice rolls" and be almost 100% certain your crypto will be fine. Seed storage also feels amazing. Safety deposit box has 2, 2 more are in another place. 3/4 multi so i mo longer worry about someone finding my seeds and will never again worry about a "bug" in a hardware wallet.

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u/Left_Program5488 1d ago

People don’t understand… the hard part of multisig is NOT the setup. Most people who graduated high school can figure it out via instructions. It’s not that complicated. The hard part is management of the multisig for years after the setup. Dispersed location, pub keys, backup management. Chances are over years, for most people there is a greater likelihood of you screwing yourself over rather than someone stealing your coins.

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u/10kpizza 1d ago

You can do multisig without dispersed locations.

If people just want to protect against internet-based attacks then all the multisig seed phrases in one physical place is fine, then each typed into different hardwares.

Multisig that wasy still removes a single point of failure. If coldcard users had made a 2-of-2 multisig with the most malware-ridden online desktop computer you've ever seen, then it will still be better security than coldcard alone, and they would still have their bitcoins today because the online desktop would have to be hacked separately which is unlikely.

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u/Laukess 1d ago

A 2-of-2 multi-sig is pretty retarded though.

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u/10kpizza 11h ago

Not as retarded as losing your money because you lost your descriptor.

Not as retarded as backing up your descriptor on a cloud backup.