Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on Today at 12:30:44 PM

Feel free to make any question you want. There are no stupid questions.

thank you. i genuinely appreciate that.

Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on Today at 12:30:44 PM

Well, yes, but my question is why would you want to do that? Bitcoin Core is not newbie friendly, and does not support a seed phrase standard like BIP39 (which helps a lot for backups). Instead, I would follow this little guide and install Tails which come with Electrum pre-installed.

trying to get a streamline, airgapped process using btc core only if possible and no manufactured hardware wallets (don't trust them). for some reason i am weary about having to use other apps or programs in the process. that is either due to a lack of understanding or paranoia.

also, isn't electrum quite difficult/not newb friendly? i have started looking into seedsigner but again it seems like i need an electrum server set up and sparrow wallet. two additional programs to keep all this together. but i don't know what i don't know.

thank you for the links i will check them out.

Quote from: fasttimes on March 14, 2024, 09:05:53 PM

would this not be a cold wallet? then that person could make back up copies of the wallet.dat file for redundancy/protection?

It would be a cold storage, but you should not rely on digital back ups, as disk corruption is a common phenomenon. Instead, you should be able to back up your bitcoin in paper, human-readable. That's a seed phrase.
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and getting a paper back up of a btc core HD wallet is difficult/cumbersome?