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While I was looking through an old address today, I suddenly remembered last year’s “Bridge Horror.” My hands were shaking like I was unpacking a delivery… To put it plainly, security is really strongly tied to the size of your assets. If it’s a small amount, don’t put yourself through the trouble of living in fear that you’ll lose your seed phrase every day—just use a hardware wallet. At the very least, it keeps you from accidentally treating your hot wallet like a diary.
If your assets are a bit larger and you love to tinker with DeFi, I strongly recommend using multi-signature. Sure, it’s troublesome, but compared to one mistaken approval that wipes everything out, signing twice really isn’t that big a deal.
As for social recovery, I think it’s more like a test of “who you trust”: if your friends are reliable, that’s great; if they aren’t… then that’s basically a warning sign of social disaster.
Also, I happened to see the group arguing again about whether extreme funding rates will reverse or keep squeezing the bubble—my choice is still to keep the keys under control first, so that if the market jolts, it won’t also rattle people’s mindsets to pieces.