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What are you doing with your multisig on vacation?

94 sats \ 13 comments \ @holger 15 May 2022 bitcoin freebie

Hi everyone, I'm using a 2 of 3 setup with 3 different hardware wallets. I'm using sparrow with my own node.

What do you do with your seed plates and HWW when you leave your house for vacation?

Taking everything with you seems very dangerous, maybe better to hide everything in the house and hope for the best?

22 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 15 May 2022

The only advantage to traveling with them I presume is knowing if someone tampered with them because your other backups and wallets should be offsite anyway. I think this why many folks put them in some sort of tamper proof bag/case. If you did that there wouldn’t be much point in taking them with you

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @nullcount 16 May 2022

A tamper evident package can help ease the paranoia if leaving the plates at home

Seal a paper envelope with melted wax and stamp with a recognizable pattern.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @holger OP 16 May 2022 freebie

Thanks, this looks like a good solution.

1 sat \ 7 replies \ @DarthCoin 15 May 2022

I travel with this. Nobody have a clue that I carry shit tons of money in my teeth :)

https://i.postimg.cc/qRJnvqCv/safe-cold-storage.jpg

Also steganography is so simple to use and hide your seed.

This picture is real. Take the bitcoin if you can

https://i.postimg.cc/RCTcMwzv/cats-stego.jpg

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @frostdragon 19 Aug 2022

Was browsing through steganography posts - I really hope you don't actually have a seed phrase stored in this downloadable 87.7 KB jpg sitting on the open internet lol. If the downloadable version hasn't been rendered and actually has a seed phrase in it, you should probably remove any bitcoin that might be in that wallet 😬

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 21 Aug 2022

Please try to take my 1BTC from that picture :) Absolutely NOBODY could do it until now. That picture had embedded the seed from 2016... Why people are so freaked out about things they do not understand or know well ?

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @frostdragon 21 Aug 2022

I’m actually pretty convinced the downloadable version of this picture doesn’t actually have a wallet in it. Often, when pictures are uploaded, they’re rendered or compressed or the data is otherwise altered. Have you attempted to restore the seed from this image (specifically, the publicly hosted/downloadable version)? This is a common point of failure for stuff like this, you may want to check on that.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 21 Aug 2022

Yes, I know that. That's why I post that "copy" of the original file. Only from the original file you can extract the words. But few know that, only those who really look into this. The original file is in a safe place (online) from where I can recover it any time, directly with no compression/alteration. Anyways is just another backup of the seed. Same seed I insert it also in one of my guides on https://darthcoin.substack.com. Who read my bitcoin guides could find it in plain sight there, but will have to know the order of the words and in which guide :)

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @frostdragon 21 Aug 2022

Just not sure why anyone would want to reduce their security so significantly. Think about it - if you have a 24 word completely airgapped seed, those words are picked from a list of 2048. If you do the math, the chances that someone randomly guesses your seed are about the same as someone randomly picking one specific atom out of the universe.

Each of your guides have a few hundred words at the most from the list of 2048, which means you’ve brought brute forcing chances into the realm of possibility, and posted it for any hacker or government agency to take.

Just saying, seems a bit bold and unnecessary. Steganography doesn’t stand a chance against determined hackers. Just a matter of time imo

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 21 Aug 2022

Just not sure why anyone would want to reduce their security so significantly.

Just to prove you that I didn't reduced in any way the security. Please be my guest to find my seed if you can.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @random_ 16 May 2022

Who removed my text? What's that? Greetings from Switzerland.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @EnormousPony 16 May 2022

I never bring my multisig with me, that's not how you do opsec. I isually have a signing device laying around where I transfer a bunch of bitcoins from my multisig "cold" storage. Last trip for example I had only 3 bitcoins with me

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @2big2fail 15 May 2022

sounds like you need a home security system