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by matheusmoreira 921 days ago
I've found the most secure key management is to keep important keys offline and stored on paper and only load them into a live tails/whonix system for brief uses. I even contributed a binary decoding feature to zbar to let me store them on printed QR codes and easily input them back in.

> bricked ones losing funds

Well of course. It's just a computer and all computers fail. Cheap laptops can also fail and destroy your keys. USB flash storage failure is even more likely. This is the number one argument for storing keys on paper which is actually known to last centuries.