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Re:Top Bitcoin dev gets owned by thinkmassive on Monday January 02, 2023 @01:15AM (#34214928)
Why would you use Shamirs when the Bitcoin protocol has a superior mechanism built in?

SSS is a good solution for other key material, and for storing a paper key to be used for recovery purposes, but it's completely inferior to multisig for normal management of a shared and/or large Bitcoin wallet.

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Re:Top Bitcoin dev gets owned by lrvick on Monday January 02, 2023 @02:43AM (#34215396)
Well, bitcoin is not the only type of secret one needs to protect. GPG keys, other cryptoassets, password manager master encryption keys, etc etc.

I like to have one solution that can work for my entire cryptographic life.

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