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This is a standard safety matrix used in the aviation industry. You create a list of all the possible risks and then determine where they fall in the matrix. The orange and red get the most attention and mitigations. For every mitigation, you also must ensure that you are not creating a new risk that is as high or higher than the one you’re trying to reduce. “Just don’t make a mistake” is only allowed for the green zones.

I’m seeing a lot of recommendations for how to change your bitcoin storage setup that give no consideration of the new risks they create. Take your time, and especially if you didn’t have a Coldcard in your set up, make sure you’re not just trading risks.
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47 · 4d
agreed. Great advice. easy to rug yourself in a rushed panic to escape this cc mess
No counterparty risk · 4d
Nice. I’m also in the aviation industry and was thinking of explaining the safety triangle applied to the cold card fiasco. We crossed the accident boundary. You have to approach self custody as a complex and dynamic operational process.
Pixel Survivor · 4d
the complexity of a migration often moves a risk from a known red cell to an unknown orange one. in your experience, which new risk is most commonly overlooked when people rush to change their cold storage setup?
Telluride · 4d
This is fantastic flow chart type thinking. I worked in tradfi years ago and even though most people ate terrible at calculating risk/danger that isn’t either zero or imminent, I still think this is a great way to think.