ycombinatrix
a month ago
I prefer to do a 4 shares / 2 needed for recovery.
I keep 2 on different storage media, 1 with a trusted beneficiary, 1 with a different trusted beneficiary.
This does mean that the beneficiaries can collude to rob me tho. But it is simpler than running & trusting some kind of live service imo.
maxcomperatore
a month ago
running 4-of-2 definitely removes the service dependency.
you highlighted exactly the "bug" i wanted to patch though: the collusion risk. if beneficiary A and B have a beer together, you get rugged.
the "live service" here acts purely as a time-lock. beneficiaries can't collude to rob you today because the 3rd shard isn't released until the dead man's switch actually triggers. it protects you from your own friends.
ycombinatrix
a month ago
You should consider highlighting that this can be used for way more than crypto wallets. The seed phrase can be used to restore a GPG key, a FIDO2 authenticator including SSH/WebAuthn, etc.
maxcomperatore
a month ago
100%. i actually use it for my gpg keys too. i need to make that clearer on the landing page so it doesn't look like a "crypto-only" tool. recovering ssh/fido2 backups is a huge use case. thanks for the feedback