Curated articles tagged Self-Custody
Part of Concepts
Where your bitcoin sits before you send, what pressing send does, who checks it, and where the 0.05 BTC goes. Six beginner questions, one worked example, no jargon.
A Coldcard firmware bug turned 128-bit seeds into 40-bit ones. Attackers swept 594 BTC from 500 wallets in 25 minutes. Here is exactly how it broke.
Bitcoin Node setup in Switzerland step by step. Run Bitcoin Core 30.0 or Knots on a Pi 5 with Swiss ISP config, Tor, Electrs, and full data sovereignty.
Lightning Network Home node setup in 2026: hardware, Umbrel vs Start9, full-node sync, channel funding, inbound liquidity, SCB backups, and watchtowers.
Cold storage setup for Bitcoin in 2026: hardware selection, seed generation, passphrase decision, test transaction, recovery drill, and steel-plate backup.
Bitcoin estate planning in Switzerland: a Bitcoin inventory, BIP-39 or SLIP-39 backups, 2-of-3 multisig, a sealed executor envelope, an Erbvertrag before a notary and two witnesses, the Pflichtteil under ZGB Art. 470 and
Bitcoin Wallet Recovery in 2026 mapped across 8 loss scenarios. Find the right path from forgotten passwords to missing seed words to heir access fast.
Cracking a Bitcoin wallet password is one of the few jobs btcrecover still does well. The 3rdIteration fork, GPU setup, and where DIY ends.
Self-custody removes the exchange middleman. Hardware wallet plus 20 or 24 word seed plus optional passphrase. The full Swiss-context setup walkthrough.
