Re:MicroStrategy Announces over $1B in Total Bitcoin Purchas...
by alwillis on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @09:44PM
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Also its a very inaccessible way to store bitcoin, and not scalable for all use cases.
It depends on how much money someone is holding. It's certain more secure than a single password on a banking site and your mother's maiden name.
Multisig allows for a possible catastrophic incident to occur—a fishing attack, a security vulnerability with your bitcoin wallet, loosing your pin, etc—and not lose your money.
A 2 of 3 multisig is something tech savvy people could easily do with a hardware wallet, a smartphone or computer and a safe deposit box, for example.
If you're a multinational corporation with over a $1 billion in bitcoin like MicroStrategy, it may make sense to have keys in different parts of the country or in different countries, especially if your adversaries are state level actors.
Nothing is 100% safe. If 3 of those locations are compromised the bitcoins would be lost permanently. Also its a very inaccessible way to store bitcoin, and not scalable for all use cases.