celestal on Nostr: Yeah get a hardware wallet for cold storage and withdraw your bitcoin from Coinbase. ...
Yeah get a hardware wallet for cold storage and withdraw your bitcoin from Coinbase. And store your seed preferably on metal. Yokis by xellox (npub1nt2…lhax) is the most convenient: it has 3 seed metal plates and a metal carver pen with which you can write the seed on the metal plate. Storing the seed safely is the most important part, because the hardware "wallet" is just a signing device and can brake down at some point, so you need your seed to restore the keys to another signing device. Think of the seedphrase as your bitcoin.
And practice this process by making just a tiny transaction into your hardware wallet, wipe it out and recover it with the seed phrase that your hardware wallet created before sending to it, just to get comfortable with it.
For buying bitcoin and withdrawing, Coinbase will do the job but it isn't ideal, they're a bit of a shitcoin casino, and if I recall correctly they're servers have crashed during some bull market mania due to high traffic. US has better options like River, and I think you can buy the bitcoin from them straight to cold storage, so one extra step avoided. And they are bitcoin-only.
Another option is a 2-or-3 multisig setup with a third party, like casa.io, where you will hold two keys and casa holds one. Two keys are needed for making a transaction so if you lose one, you can recover them with casa's recovery key, but they cannot make a transaction on their own. They use a similar setup for inheritance planning, something to consider if you want it to be passed on to your family.
And practice this process by making just a tiny transaction into your hardware wallet, wipe it out and recover it with the seed phrase that your hardware wallet created before sending to it, just to get comfortable with it.
For buying bitcoin and withdrawing, Coinbase will do the job but it isn't ideal, they're a bit of a shitcoin casino, and if I recall correctly they're servers have crashed during some bull market mania due to high traffic. US has better options like River, and I think you can buy the bitcoin from them straight to cold storage, so one extra step avoided. And they are bitcoin-only.
Another option is a 2-or-3 multisig setup with a third party, like casa.io, where you will hold two keys and casa holds one. Two keys are needed for making a transaction so if you lose one, you can recover them with casa's recovery key, but they cannot make a transaction on their own. They use a similar setup for inheritance planning, something to consider if you want it to be passed on to your family.