I grabbed some silver.
I am stacking more btc.
Hard to get excited about stacking the shitcoin also known as silver, but hey if you have ways to get it and ways to sell it that are comfortable to you, then you are likely one or two steps ahead of a lot of "us" mostly non-commodity holding normies.. and not even conceding the stacking of silver to be a good idea (even if you might be able to figure out the sourcing and/or the ways to liquidate).
[edited out]
Speaking of how to take care of our hardware devices, I always remember an interesting film on that very topic - it's worth watching if you haven't seen it already.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf97ofTlZhk (Schloss Bitcoin (2020) - deutscher Kurzfilm - Crime Black Comedy Subtitles in English, French & more)
Yeah.. I watched that from another time that you had posted it... it is quite good in a kind of nerdy way, as you seem to be suggesting, and I also forwarded it to some folks in real life.. and then also I posted it once or twice in other places on the forum without remembering exactly that you had been the one that posted it previously.
..... Another thing to note is that the attacker does not have an immediate indication that the correct passphrase was found, because ALL possible passphrases (even "wrong" ones) result in valid (albeit empty) wallets. So, the attacker will need to check the blockchain against ALL passphrase candidates, and reject those that result in empty wallets.
I don't really disagree with what you are saying here overall AlcoHoDL - however, there is a bit of a difference between entering a passphrase that leads to a previously used location versus one that leads to a bunch of empty wallets (that thereby presumptively would have to be created since the route had not previously been attempted).
In other words, if you enter in passphrase that leads to empty wallets, Trezor will provide a message:
"This hidden wallet is empty. To make sure you are in the correct hidden wallet, please type the passphrase again."
And it thereby allows you to enter the passphrase again to confirm or to just exit out.
There is another box that you can check that says: "I understand passphrases cannot be retrieved."
On the other hand, if you enter a valid passphrase that has value contained therein, it will not give any message or prompt, but just open up to the wallet and the balances of the various accounts therein will be shown.
By the way, reading through some of this triggered me into looking into the decoy pin feature, and I surely do not see how to set up a decoy pin. I did not even know such a feature existed on Trezor even though I heard that some other devices (such as cold card) has such a feature.. and they also have the brick me pin.. and I don't really like the idea of a brick me pin, but I do like the idea of erasing all the data... but I still cannot find how to enable such a feature on the Trezor..
Ok.. I just found it, and it appears that you have to use a "terminal window" in order to set it up, which seems a bit confusing to me.. and goes to show that some of us (including yours truly) are spoiled by GUI interfaces.
https://trezor.io/learn/a/create-wipe-code-to-erase-deviceMy use of the trezor seems to go in streaks.. and there could be several weeks that I am using it, but then not using it for months or even years.. and maybe these kinds of activities can vary - including that we might want to actually test out our device and system at least once a year and perhaps more often.. I have some recent business activities that are likely going to cause me to have to start to access the trezor more often, but surely I can see guys going more than a year without even touching their device.. which then could go to questions about whether we for sure know if our trezor is missing.. hahahahaha.. depending on how secure we might be in terms of placing it next to the TV remote or next to our computer, or in the bedroom between the mattresses or in a safety deposit box in the next city over or in our parents cellar safe or in another country that we visit once every two years.. hahahahaha
It's a trade-off, with potentially dire consequences at either extreme. I choose the middle ground, i.e., a PIN and passphrase that are complex enough to deter even a seasoned thief/hacker, but memorable enough to reside in the neurons of my brain -- that last part could potentially be dangerous in case of amnesia or head injury.
Don't forget the dangers of hypnotism.. or gosh are there truth syrums that someone could put into your drink. and maybe you really don't want to know certain things without having to consult with some kind of way to put some pieces together.. but if you enter your pin or passphrase (or even your 12/24 words) enough, it might get committed to your short term and even long term memory.. is that a good thing or not?.. I do know that the longer I take to access some of my information, it can sometimes seem very complicated, even though I had previously thought (a couple years earlier) that I had created a pretty straight forward system.. but then does it really work..
By the way, I have a little bit of a story, and I am not sure how much I should tell, but I had a situation in which I needed the seed phrase that was supposed to be in three parts and I was missing one of the parts (for reasons), and so I knew that I had two back ups of the three parts, and so I called up a life-long friend, and he surely is not very technical and even though talked with him about bitcoin several times, his eyes glaze over while he is looking at how complicated his flip phone is or that he is trying to get his remote on his TV to work.. (he doesn't have internet).. but anyhow.. I called him up, and I asked him if he could go to the location in which one of the pieces was located, and I would give him the code to get in, and then I would give him instructions about how to get to it while we were on the phone live, and he said o..k.. and he would call me when he was at the location. It took about 5-10 minutes just to get to locating the place where the words were, and I told him that it would probably be 8 words, and he told me that it is only 4 words.. and then I remembered that it was a 12 word split up instead of a 24 word split.. and so when he read me the 4 words, he mentioned that one of the words was "xxcxxxxx", and I said that does not even sound like a real word, and he read it several times and told me that is what it says. I said o.k... so I wrote down the 4 words, and I told him that I would let him know if I had any problems in terms of getting access to the wallet that I was wanting to get, but I would have to do it in a few hours.
So when I put together all 12 words, and I typed in the "xxcxxxx" by the time I got to the second letter, there was already a suggestion that had the word to be "xxrxxxx".. so my friend could have had sworn that the word the one with the "c" and neither of us even thought about the word with the "r".. so sometimes simple mistakes can be figured out, but some kinds of more complicated mistakes might be a lot more difficult to resolve.
Oh.. and by the way,. the whole time my friend was telling me that he was not even going to try to remember anything that I was telling him.. a kind of courtesy message to say that he was recognizing and appreciating that I was sharing private financial information with him.. but part of the reason that I picked him to do it was that I already considered him to be someone who I could trust with that information and even more information than he might be comfortable knowing about.
I'm glad we're having this discussion, it certainly helps us all be more aware of the potential dangers and act accordingly.
ditto
Poll
