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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Exchanges hardware wallet models
by
Josmorio
on 12/04/2019, 17:17:21 UTC
What type/models of hardware wallets would exchanges use?

Some have like 100k bitcoins in hardware wallets. How do they keep the qctual wallet from being compromized. They surely cannt let anyone even the owners tranfer funds outside from it or even hold it  Grin
Thats open to criminals chasing people with access to those wallets even if the employees were honest they are still under risk if they have sole access. So what type of hardware wallets would they use?

I see ledger has a wallet that can have multi seed access and transaction size restrictions but thats something new, surely there was a solution before ledegers one.
IMO, starshing 100k bitcoin in a single hardware is a totally bad idea, to be on a safer side,ill be glad to advise any exchange CEO to spread out their crypto asset in multiple hardware wallets with varying security measures so that in a worst case senario the digital asset will not all be tampered all at once via a single point of entry. and also, the concept of a once-per-quarter check up just like how Darb is doing it right now will help in cutting down the level of such occurrence.