Bitkey vs. a spear phishing attack
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The end of seed phrase scams
The easiest way to avoid seed phrase scams? Don’t use a seed phrase. Since the beginning of time, scammers have found ways to turn the misfortune of others into a payday. Unfortunately, bitcoin isn’t immune. Like cash, whoever holds it owns it, a fact that makes it a...
Seedless is safer
Losing your seed phrase is perhaps a bitcoiner’s biggest fear. And for good reason. When seed phrases came into existence more than a decade ago, they were a vast improvement in user experience compared to managing raw private keys—strings of hex buried in files or password managers. They...
Beyond the seed phrase: Why we built Bitkey
In 2013, seed phrases were a major step forward — replacing private keys and their unwieldy string of numbers and letters with a simple set of real words. They made recovering lost wallets easier and helped bring self-custody to more people. But today, they remain a single point of failure and...
What do you mean, ‘There’s no seed phrase’?
Three routes to recovery are better than one high-value hide-a-key. You know that spare key your neighbor has, hidden under the mat or a fake rock or in a combination lockbox, in case they get locked out of their home? That’s basically what a seed phrase is: a high-value...
How one engineer got into bitcoin–and her parents into multi-sig
On March 16, 1990, just a day after his inauguration, then-president of Brazil Fernando Collor de Mello put an 18-month freeze on every Brazilian savings account with a balance larger than $1200, telling account holders the government had effectively “borrowed” their money. The measure affected 80% of all bank deposits,...