Use Multi-Signature And Social Recovery Wallets To Achieve Self-Custody, Ethereum Creator Says
2023年3月19日 - 12:00AM
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin advised crypto investors to use
social recovery and self-custody wallets. Buterin’s suggestion
comes amid heightened expectations for the new Arbitrum token
airdrop scheduled on March 23 and the upcoming Shanghai upgrade.
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Historically Kicked Off Bull Rallies The recommendation makes sense
given the increased cyber-related crimes in crypto, with hackers
targeting a vulnerability in user wallets. The Ethereum co-founder
suggested multi-signature and social recovery wallets so that users
can hold self-custody of their funds. Self-Custody Is Crucial In
Crypto: Ethereum Creator Social recovery wallets are
smart-contract-powered wallets that allow users to recover access
to their stolen funds even if they lose their private key. On the
other hand, a multi-sig wallet requires two or more private keys to
authorize a transaction or access funds. In a tweet, Buterin
noted that self-custody is crucial in the crypto ecosystem,
especially with the last year’s event. The many hack exploitations
in 2021 and 2022 with the FTX fiasco magnified the need for
self-custody wallets. Buterin suggests multi-sig wallets for
long-term holdings and social recovery wallets for short-term
day-to-day trading activities. Following his recommendation,
Buterin made a Reddit post that detailed his opinion on how users
should choose guardians for social recovery and multi-sig wallets.
In his Reddit post, the founder recommended multi-sig wallets like
Gnosis Safe, an easy and reliable wallet to store funds.
Buterin explained that centralized organizations are trustworthy
but pose risks of regulatory pressure, including system and human
errors. Therefore he advised users not to trust centralized
entities. Further, he stated that social recovery wallets are
easier to use than multi-sig wallets. The ERC-4337 account
abstraction and newly built smart contract wallets like Soul Wallet
bolsters wallet security. Choice Of Wallets, Key Guardians
Can Minimize Risks Of Assets Loss In addition, Buterin
suggested using social recovery for hot wallets that store smaller
portions of funds and multi-sigs for cold wallets that store more
funds. Also, he noted that selecting good guardians is
crucial. Good guardians improve the security of crypto funds
by reducing the chances of losing keys, funds theft, and risks of
sharing private keys with others. In the post, Buterin detailed how
to choose a secure guardian. Related Reading: Here’s When Messari
CEO Ryan Selkis Expects Bitcoin To Reach $100,000 One of the
comments to Buterin’s post talked about the importance of having
guardians that can use hardware wallets. It also noted that using
guardians for hardware wallets is better than storing keys in
Metamask or Google Drive. While responding, Buterin said that
hardware wallets are unnecessary due to issues that might arise
with the issuing company. However, he agreed with the commenter
that using Google Drive or Metamask to store keys are risky.
Buterin’s posts followed several wallet attacks that led to a loss
of thousands of dollars. These include MyAlgo Wallet exploit, which
saw massive amounts of money stolen from users’ accounts. That is
not Buterin’s first time recommending social recovery wallets. On
January 11, 2021, Buterin posted a blog detailing the need for
crypto investors to adopt recovery wallets. In the article, Buterin
said multi-sig is his favorite of all wallet categories. He
introduced recovery wallets as easy to use with high-level
security. Featured image from Pixabay and chart from
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