Got it. Thanks for answering. I went ahead and transferred my bitcoins to a trezor until I can get an offline computer to handle multi-sig

Would the following procedure be secure?

1) disable internet on PC
2) create 3 out of 6 frag wallet
3) delete wallet except for "watch only"
4) turn Internet back on and send bitcoins to said wallet

I have read many places that these steps need to be done on an offline computer and import "watch only" to an online computer, BUT I was wondering if it would be safe to do them on the same computer but just offline and delete wallet before going online?

I'm dense but I'm def not stupid enough to fall for that one. Thanks for the heads up tho

Ok thank you I understand now. I figured it had something to do with the block chain but was not certain. Thanks for the clarification

I am pretty new to cryptography and more of an economics minded bitcoiner. it seems like this is a non issue as far as security goes (because smarter people than me have not raised the issue) but I am still having a hard time wrapping my mind around how you can buy a new Trezor and recover your old wallets with the root code. I'm just not sure I understand that mechanism that remembers your old wallets without it being stored somewhere else

I do not understand the concept of: if you can recover your Trezor with your root code [26 random words] then doesn't that mean your data is stored on some kind of centralized server or database (which could potentially get hacked).

With that said I love the Trezor product so far and was just wondering about a potential point of failure. I apologize if someone else has already asked/answered this question. Thanks