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Who holds the keys
3 articlesAn exchange account and a self-custody wallet lose money in completely different ways. This line is about who can move your assets: what two-factor actually blocks, why a seed phrase has no second line of defence, and how to be sure the door in front of you is the real one.
- Three Things to Set Up on Day OneTwo-factor, an anti-phishing code and a withdrawal address whitelist: three settings, ten minutes. How to set each one, in what order, the easy-to-miss parts such as the recovery key and the whitelist cooling-off period, and what to do if the phone is lost.
- Seed Phrases and Private Keys: Why Nobody Gets Your Twelve WordsA seed phrase is the key itself and has no second line of defence. The five ways they are actually taken, what each backup method costs you, the sentences that mean someone is after your key, and the four other ways a wallet loses money.
- Fake Support, Fake Apps, Fake Sites: Three ChecksThree repeatable actions instead of eyeballing it: enter through your own bookmark, read the domain right to left, check who spoke first. Plus how to check email, social accounts and phone calls, and what this method does not cover.