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no risk if nobody knows they are there, ditto if you are a crypto billionaire and dont tell anyone


Your house burns down. Your house floods. You put your hardware wallet on the kitchen bench after adding/withdrawing crypto and the dog grabs it and chews it up.


Don’t forget about the risk of your brain naturally forgetting a password that isn’t in active use. Especially considering your cold storage solution probably doesn’t share a password you use anywhere else.




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