Category: Backup

  • Why and How to Backup Your Bitcoin

    If you’ve bought bitcoin, chances are that you want to self-custody. Without self-custody, you don’t really have bitcoin, so why wouldn’t you? Using a hardware device to set up an offline bitcoin wallet is generally recommended. But backing up your wallet is actually much more important than having a hardware…

  • Why and How to Backup Your Bitcoin

    If you’ve bought bitcoin, chances are that you want to self-custody. Without self-custody, you don’t really have bitcoin, so why wouldn’t you? Using a hardware device to set up an offline bitcoin wallet is generally recommended. But backing up your wallet is actually much more important than having a hardware…

  • Israeli cloud backup co Eon raises $77m

    Israeli cloud backup solutions developer Eternity It discreetly announced its launch, completing a $77 million Series B funding round led by Greenoaks with participation from Quiet Ventures. Since its founding in January 2024 by CEOs Ofir Erlich, Gonen Stein, and Ron Kimchi, Eon has raised three rounds of funding: a…

  • Ethereum’s Buterin advocates multisig, says Shamir backup is ‘way easier to screw up’

    Ethereum’s Buterin advocates multisig, says Shamir backup is ‘way easier to screw up’

    Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, has publicly favored multi-signature over Shamir backup, saying the latter is “much easier to fail” for ordinary users. In the Peter Watts, founder of NFT marketplace Reservoir, took to 19 pandemic. Counterpoint: When using a hardware wallet, the biggest risk is on you. Beware of…