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A comment on What Bitcoin’s White Paper Got Right, Wrong and What We Still Don’t Know (2018). Parent comment

Re:What Bitcoin’s White Paper Got Right, Wrong and What We S... by andrewjl on Saturday October 31, 2020 @04:33PM (#24954974)
Not necessarily if you are in possession of your own keys. Which admittedly most people today are not. A hardware wallet can be physically transported in the same way gold can.
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Re:What Bitcoin’s White Paper Got Right, Wrong and What We S... by lreeves on Saturday October 31, 2020 @04:37PM (#24955005)
The TSA will seize your phone if you don't hand over passwords and passcodes in many cases, you're saying you think it'd be a good idea to cross the US border with any amount of bitcoin on a hardware wallet? That's... optimistic.
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Re:What Bitcoin’s White Paper Got Right, Wrong and What We S... by andrewjl on Saturday October 31, 2020 @04:42PM (#24955044)
You don't need a hardware wallet if you use the mnemonic phrase feature.[1]

https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Mnemonic_phrase

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