I started recording exactly what I’m signing each time and which route I take (whether there’s some strange call being slipped in along the way), and I found this habit is more lifesaving than changing wallets… When your assets are small, a hardware wallet is enough—at the very least, you pull the private key out of your computer; once you reach a certain size, multi-signature really brings peace of mind. It’s a bit more troublesome, but the probability of “one slip and everything is gone” drops dramatically. Social recovery, I think, fits people who don’t want to carry mnemonic phrases every day, but are still worried about losing them—though, let’s be honest, trust relationships have to be put out in the open. Don’t treat it like magic.

Recently, I can understand the backlash against the whole staking and shared security setup as being “copycat nesting dolls.” The compounding yields sound great, and the path also keeps getting more and more roundabout—until, in the end, you don’t even know which layer the risk is coming from. Anyway, my current standard is pretty simple: if I can accomplish the same thing with fewer signatures, I’ll try not to make the route more complicated. That’s it for now.