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hardware waller is NOT your key too. YOUR key is the paper wallet generated OFFLINE on a clean laptop that was never connected to web. There is a giant difference.

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Your method does not protect against what the person you replied to, posted.

If your paper wallet, generated offline, used a bad RNG, it is just as vulnerable.

> YOUR key is the paper wallet generated OFFLINE on a clean laptop that was never connected to web.

That sounds like your housekeeper's key...

Commit it to memory, the original kind.

And then make sure to never have any memory loss or you’ll lose all your money too.

That’s the risk. You can write it down or otherwise store it, but you’re trading one risk for another.

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