I hope he does a dedicated episode of showing how it’s done. While it’s quite easy, I see there are people who are been psyoped by the industry that it’s hard and not for non technical users.
https://x.com/jackmallersshow/status/2110019981270241703?s=20
quotingI was using coldcard in a multi sig with sparrow. I recommend coldcard to most of my friends and family who wanted a self custody solution. But I didn’t realised that it was living a fake dream of self custody.
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Coldcard hack was an eye opener for me. I was lucky to escape it. I was confused and was looking for the answers. I’m a non technical guy, I don’t know how to code and stuff. For me it was way more confusing than most of you guys out there.
Even though I am non technical but I ain’t stupid. The reaction that the community had was just blaming the users. “Oh you should have rolled dice” “Do multi vendor multi sig” and many other bull shit narrative.
For me it was enough, so I decided to do my own work and not trust any single one of these losers out there.
After spending my time, I came to know that hardware wallets are just a psyop. It’s designed to rug you in thousand possible ways, be it via hardware/ software back doors, supply chain attacks and many more and yeah this open source narrative is a fed psyop. If something is open source that doesn’t mean it can’t be back doored.
The only thing that’s open source, heavily audited, reproducible software is bitcoin core and Linux. Everything else is either back doored or waiting to be back doored.
If you say these two words to any person in the space selling you hardware wallet, they get offended. Meanwhile satoshi and real OGs are still using it.
Then they say, “oh it’s for the technical guys, normal person will fuck that up”
Dude if you are taking self custody in your own hands, that means you know how to send and receive bitcoin. Bitcoin core is nothing more than that. Don’t fall for this psyop.
Now how to securely use it:
While you can just download bitcoin core, verify it and create wallet on online computer dedicated towards it, it’s 100x safer than hardware wallets, but doing so for large amounts won’t be optimal.
While you can use the guide below of yeti 2.0, I didn’t use the commands from this guide directly because I trust no one at this point. But reading this guide will give you an idea on how to set up the wallet using online and offline laptops.
I will try to be concise but here is the work flow:
1) You need 2 laptops dedicated for this purpose.
2) On the online laptop download bitcoin core, verify it and sync it.
3) Take a USB stick download tailsOs and flash it on the usb. You can get the work flow of it on tailsOs website.
4) Boot your online laptop with tailsOs and download bitcoin core into its persistent storage.
5) Now take your second laptop, disable network using BIOS. Then boot tailsOs. Open the persistent storage where you downloaded bitcoin core, copy it to the desktop, run it offline, generate key, encrypt it (optional) and save the .dat file into usb, sd card , CDs (use Azo dye CDs, they got 50 years of life) make multiple copies of it. You can also write the xprv on a paper, you just have to use command lines.
It’s easy, if you get confused, you can use gemini, it will guide you through.
6) Then take a different usb stick label it psbt. Plug that in and copy the xpub. And use that xpub and create a watch only wallet on online laptop.
7) So your work flow will be- create psbt on online laptop- use usb to put that psbt into offline laptop- sign transaction- transfer it back to online laptop and broad cast it
8) it feels like it’s too much but it’s way easier. You can also create multi sig but you have to use the command lines on bitcoin core and it’s very easy to do and if you get stuck, you can use the help of ChatGPT of gemini.
I have attached yeti 2.0 file, if someone wants to go through that. My approach was a bit different than them.
If someone needs help regarding it, just let me know below. Just don’t fall for the psyop that it’s not for non technical users.
Fuck these losers.
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