FIVE reasons you need this:
- HOUSE FIRES
The melting point of our TitCard is approximately 3000°F (1605°C). A house fire is max 1200°F (600°C) and a car fire in extreme cases is max 2500°F (1500°C). Either scenario can destroy cards made out of stainless steel, aluminum, etc. But because this thing is titanium, it is practically invincible. Some people have more money in their bitcoin wallet than their house is worth and this durability is of enormous value to the right person.
– - PROFESSIONAL FINISHED PRODUCT
While a TitCard can be ordered blank so that you can manually hammer letters into the card, a far more polished and professional outcome is to let us create and laser etch a unique random seed phrase for you. The final product looks truly incredible. Manual stamping requires special tools and is very time consuming and that is how we used to do it too. But laser etching is a beautiful product whose quality and professionalism cannot be matched.
– - WAIT WAIT WAIT !! NO NO NO !!
- Everyone has always told me to NEVER share a seed phrase! Why in the world would I ever order and use a pre-printed laser etched seed phrase?!?!
- This is generally good advice but is stated by those who are unaware of the following point: Bitcoin’s BIP39 “25th word” method allows you to add a password of your choosing. This is not some kind of “hack” or in any way unique to TitCard: it is a standardized part of the Bitcoin protocol (BIP39) that works with multiple wallets.
- Our seed phrases are unique. No two TitCards are alike. But even if they weren’t, the seed phrase does not give anyone access to anything about you or your funds without your 25th word.
- Word of caution: a weak 25th word is a weak wallet. We recommend using something at least 20 characters long.
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- THE WRENCH ATTACK
- There have disturbingly been an increasing number of “wrench attacks”, a cheeky phrase meaning that someone can physically assault you or your family with a $5 wrench to acquire the location of your seed words.
- Using the “25th word” method, a TitCard’s seed phrase can reasonably be used as a decoy wallet. In other words, the pre-printed 24 word seed phrase IS a actually valid wallet. This lets you have a decoy wallet to provide to an attacker coming at you with a wrench or a gun. We suggest that you put a small amount of funds in the decoy so that the attacker can feel like they have acquired something, while your actual much larger balance is safe behind a different 25th word.
- However, this same seed phrase plus a 25th word can be used to access a different wallet. In fact, it can be used for thousands of different wallets. Each will be unique and un-linkable to the others. For example:
- Seed phrase1 + Password1 = Wallet A
- Seed phrase1 + Password2 = Wallet B
- Seed phrase1 + Password3 = Wallet C and so on….
- Or combine multiple seed phrases by using a multi-signature wallet. Some examples are:
- (Seed phrase1 + Password1) + (Seed phrase2 + Password2) = Wallet D
- (Seed phrase1 + Password3) + (Seed phrase2 + Password4) = Wallet E
- (Seed phrase1 + Password1) + (Seed phrase2 + Password2) + (Seed phrase3 + Password3) = Wallet F and so on….
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- LOCATION DIVERSIFICATION: MULTIPLE COPIES MADE EASY
- Physically stamping multiple 24 word cards by hand is ridiculously time consuming and unless you are a professional craftsman who regularly stamps things by hand, the final result looks like shit. I know because I’ve done exactly that myself before I created TitCard. While we can produce just one seed phrase card for you, we strongly recommend purchasing multiple identical cards. It is a wise strategy to have multiple identical cards stored in different locations so that one can be lost or stolen.
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