Was just having the convo of safest storage methods with some buddies and an hour later this popped up on my YouTube -
https://youtu.be/iNHVbDtUL0EI’m having a hard time understanding if he means for the general public/ non experts (me) or even for someone like himself or Gmaxwell , for example ? I had always been taught that paper wallets are the purest form of cold storage. He’s advocating for hardware wallets (even over a correctly established air-gapped pc) , but there are sone risks they pose that paper does not, right? He’s stating paper wallet tech is simply outdated, but I don’t see how?
As always appreciate any insight you Mr Robots can provide!
A paper wallet generated from an air-gapped computer, and the private keys secured properly is I believe just as safe and secure as a hardware wallet. I would also recommend copying the keys in a text file, encrypt that text file, make multiple back ups to the encrypted text file then keep them in different locations.