bitcoiner7 nym on Nostr: Thank you. You made me think. OK, Google has never seen my private keys. I use a cold ...

Thank you.

You made me think.

OK, Google has never seen my private keys.

I use a cold wallet on a device that has never been online, and never will be.

So, they cannot confiscate it "just like that".

However, I have just realized, or rather, you have made me realize, the Bitcoin I buy every week , I'm sending it, every few months, from my hot wallet, a Blue Wallet app on Android, to my cold wallet.


Is there a possibility that Google knows the addresses I'm sending my Bitcoin to? By somehow monitoring, via Android, what the Blue Wallet app is doing? Or by monitoring my traffic?

If true, what can I do? If I use a Linux PC with a Sparrow wallet on it, sign a transaction offline, to send my Bitcoin to myself, from my cold wallet to the next address in the same wallet, and send my utxos to it, perhaps in a few transactions, not to consolidate them all in one go - would that work?

Then, when they come for my Bitcoin, I can say, plausible deniability, that I sent it to someone or lost my key and someone took it. And nobody will know that the address I sent it to was my own address, right? Unless they know my private key, which they cannot know.

Right?

Damn, maybe I'm paranoid, but the wallet online app on Android knows my cold wallet xpub. I added a watch-only wallet to it.

Does that mean that theoretically Google may know all my future addresses? And so the only way is to create a new wallet with a new private key?

Overall, thanks again and, yes, I think you can add me to the list of people you convinced :-)

And scared a bit.