It’s difficult and scary to take responsibility for your money. I had a shocking scare today. I’ve got my bitcoin in cold storage and have the pass phrases stored securely in 2 different countries. I hadn’t checked my bitcoin for about 6 months. I was confident it was safe but today I thought I’d better check things. So I went and retrieved the hard wallets and checked. ZERO Bitcoin. The panic I felt at that moment was awful. My fingers were shaking while I ejected and rechecked. Still ZERO. I was beaten. I just sat there for 10 minutes and without hope I checked again. And this time it was there. I checked again and still there. I must have typed the pin wrong. But it scared the shit out of me. Banks here are custodying btc and I’m REALLY tempted to give it to them (for annual fee of 0.5%). But not yet. I just needed to share this. And maybe get opinions.
Be careful out there.