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by HWR_14 1843 days ago
A fake UI screen? Wow, that's useful. Good thing there isn't an easily verifiable public ledger with the true value of the account that the criminals can check while holding you at gunpoint.

Meanwhile, you expect people to have cold storage where? IIRC, they cannot just memorize a private key, but they need an actual file on a device.

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No, they can actually just memorize a seed phrase. The distress mode shows an entirely different wallet ID. So, you're wrong on both counts.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Seed_phrase

> However, the bitcoin key generated is not the main key. It is effectively a completely separate wallet!

https://coldcardwallet.com/?ref=producthunt