About This Site

Where it started

After the 2026 Coldcard incident, my Twitter feed filled up with doubt about self-custody — and about Bitcoin itself. Asked about ordinary people, the technical community tends to snap back: “just use multisig.” Technical people routinely overestimate how much information security the majority of ordinary people actually know.

Most newcomers can only put a small amount of money into bitcoin; telling them to buy several hundred dollars’ worth of hardware wallets to start with is arrogant advice.

Why this site exists

Bitcoin is a gift of our time, and its success also depends on a much broader public. The barrier to storing and using bitcoin is, in fact, low. Over the past few years I have compared and verified the various self-custody setups out there, and distilled a few best practices that work for most people.

Before Bitcoin reaches the wider public, people need a self-custody setup that is both safe and simple.

Those lessons can help ordinary people who are just entering Bitcoin — but a handful of scattered articles only makes the fear of choosing worse. So I built this site: to maintain one clear custody plan, so that anyone, whatever their background, can walk into the world of Bitcoin safely and easily.

This site maintains one default plan

One default path each for creating, backing up, and using:

1. Create: roll dice yourself for a 12-word seed phrase, then add a passphrase you can remember.
2. Back up: hand-copy two or three sets, keep them in two places, and store the passphrase separately.
3. Use: a watch-only wallet on your everyday phone, and an old phone that never goes online to sign.

Walk through the steps on the homepage in order and you are done. Other options (24 words, a hardware wallet you already own, multisig) are not “advanced choices” — they are exceptions you can read about when you need them, not something to agonize over at the start.

Why not the other options?

Information security is always relative, and life is full of trade-offs. The internet is not short of Bitcoin guides, and one more scattered article makes little difference — only more confusion.

Maintaining a “default”, end-to-end plan for creating, backing up and using a bitcoin wallet, one that suits most people, may be worth something — that is why this site exists.