Dark (New) on Nostr: Just make sure to never trust your seed phrases to any password manager app. Stamp ...
Just make sure to never trust your seed phrases to any password manager app. Stamp them on steel plates, lock them together with a padlock and keep them offsite in a location you have reliable but not too convenient access to. A second backup laminated waterproof, tamper sealed paper copy in a second offsite location like a safety deposit box isn’t a bad idea either. Do the same with two sets of cloned signing devices.
Establish duress words with armed friends if you’re ever being forced into pretending to retrieve your seed plates or your signing devices from their place “because you keep them offsite”. Of course your seed plates or your devices won’t be there, but at least your friend will know when they hear your duress word that you’re in trouble and enroute, so they can call the cavalry or turn the tables on the attacker.
It’s a little extra expense, but I always clone my signing devices so I can sign transactions with either set of them. Keep them separate. Also offsite. With a delay of time involved to get them.
But most of all, be prepared to repel unwanted guests to your home at a moment’s notice. A can of bear spray and some large zip ties within easy reach at all times can buy you the time to GTFO of your house and avoid any activity aimed at pressing you for your keys or forcing you to create a transaction.
And always have instant access to firearms at home and be trained in their use.
Establish duress words with armed friends if you’re ever being forced into pretending to retrieve your seed plates or your signing devices from their place “because you keep them offsite”. Of course your seed plates or your devices won’t be there, but at least your friend will know when they hear your duress word that you’re in trouble and enroute, so they can call the cavalry or turn the tables on the attacker.
It’s a little extra expense, but I always clone my signing devices so I can sign transactions with either set of them. Keep them separate. Also offsite. With a delay of time involved to get them.
But most of all, be prepared to repel unwanted guests to your home at a moment’s notice. A can of bear spray and some large zip ties within easy reach at all times can buy you the time to GTFO of your house and avoid any activity aimed at pressing you for your keys or forcing you to create a transaction.
And always have instant access to firearms at home and be trained in their use.