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Nobody else has made much of a mention of physical security, yet. You may also like to consider the possibility of:

  1. Fire; do you have another copy of your private keys if your building burns down? Of course, storing additional copies adds additional risk of compromise.
  2. Natural disasters; depending on location, you may also need to consider the possibility of flood, tsunami, tornado, volcano. Also consider unnatural disasters such as war.
  3. Theft while unattended; if someone knew you had cryptocurrency of substantial value, might they just steal your computer hardware and read the contents of the hard disk? Is your password on a sticky note under your keyboard? (or on your monitor!)
  4. Theft while attended; ie if a thief held a gun to your head...
  5. Hardware failure; storage media gets corrupted sometimes, or just stops working.
  6. Advising next-of-kin how to access the funds, without compromising them in the meantime.
  7. Getting out of sync; if your backup copy is missing some of the most recent private keys, they are at risk. Using a deterministic wallet helps solve this one.

I know this isn't a complete answer, but each case will depend on individual circumstances and this may still be useful enough to deserve an upvote :-).

Nobody else has made much of a mention of physical security, yet. You may also like to consider the possibility of:

  1. Fire; do you have another copy of your private keys if your building burns down? Of course, storing additional copies adds additional risk of compromise.
  2. Natural disasters; depending on location, you may also need to consider the possibility of flood, tsunami, tornado, volcano. Also consider unnatural disasters such as war.
  3. Theft while unattended; if someone knew you had cryptocurrency of substantial value, might they just steal your computer hardware and read the contents of the hard disk? Is your password on a sticky note under your keyboard? (or on your monitor!)
  4. Theft while attended; ie if a thief held a gun to your head...
  5. Hardware failure; storage media gets corrupted sometimes, or just stops working.
  6. Advising next-of-kin how to access the funds, without compromising them in the meantime.
  7. Getting out of sync; if your backup copy is missing some of the most recent private keys, they are at risk. Using a deterministic wallet helps solve this one.

I know this isn't a complete answer, but each case will depend on individual circumstances and this may still be useful enough to deserve an upvote :-)

Nobody else has made much of a mention of physical security, yet. You may also like to consider the possibility of:

  1. Fire; do you have another copy of your private keys if your building burns down? Of course, storing additional copies adds additional risk of compromise.
  2. Natural disasters; depending on location, you may also need to consider the possibility of flood, tsunami, tornado, volcano. Also consider unnatural disasters such as war.
  3. Theft while unattended; if someone knew you had cryptocurrency of substantial value, might they just steal your computer hardware and read the contents of the hard disk? Is your password on a sticky note under your keyboard? (or on your monitor!)
  4. Theft while attended; ie if a thief held a gun to your head...
  5. Hardware failure; storage media gets corrupted sometimes, or just stops working.
  6. Advising next-of-kin how to access the funds, without compromising them in the meantime.
  7. Getting out of sync; if your backup copy is missing some of the most recent private keys, they are at risk. Using a deterministic wallet helps solve this one.

I know this isn't a complete answer, but each case will depend on individual circumstances and this may still be useful.

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Nobody else has mentionedmade much of a mention of physical security, yet. You may also like to consider the possibility of:

  1. Fire; do you have another copy of your private keys if your building burns down? Of course, storing additional copies adds additional risk of compromise.
  2. Natural disasters; depending on location, you may also need to consider the possibility of flood, tsunami, tornado, volcano. Also consider unnatural disasters such as war.
  3. Theft while unattended; if someone knew you had cryptocurrency of substantial value, might they just steal your computer hardware and read the contents of the hard disk? Is your password on a sticky note under your keyboard? (or on your monitor!)
  4. Theft while attended; ie if a thief held a gun to your head...
  5. Hardware failure; storage media gets corrupted sometimes, or just stops working.
  6. Advising next-of-kin how to access the funds, without compromising them in the meantime.
  7. Getting out of sync; if your backup copy is missing some of the most recent private keys, they are at risk. Using a deterministic wallet helps solve this one.

I know this isn't a complete answer, but each case will depend on individual circumstances and this may still be useful enough to deserve an upvote :-)

Nobody else has mentioned physical security, yet. You may also like to consider the possibility of:

  1. Fire; do you have another copy of your private keys if your building burns down? Of course, storing additional copies adds additional risk of compromise.
  2. Natural disasters; depending on location, you may also need to consider the possibility of flood, tsunami, tornado, volcano. Also consider unnatural disasters such as war.
  3. Theft while unattended; if someone knew you had cryptocurrency of substantial value, might they just steal your computer hardware and read the contents of the hard disk? Is your password on a sticky note under your keyboard? (or on your monitor!)
  4. Theft while attended; ie if a thief held a gun to your head...
  5. Hardware failure; storage media gets corrupted sometimes, or just stops working.
  6. Advising next-of-kin how to access the funds, without compromising them in the meantime.

I know this isn't a complete answer, but each case will depend on individual circumstances and this may still be useful enough to deserve an upvote :-)

Nobody else has made much of a mention of physical security, yet. You may also like to consider the possibility of:

  1. Fire; do you have another copy of your private keys if your building burns down? Of course, storing additional copies adds additional risk of compromise.
  2. Natural disasters; depending on location, you may also need to consider the possibility of flood, tsunami, tornado, volcano. Also consider unnatural disasters such as war.
  3. Theft while unattended; if someone knew you had cryptocurrency of substantial value, might they just steal your computer hardware and read the contents of the hard disk? Is your password on a sticky note under your keyboard? (or on your monitor!)
  4. Theft while attended; ie if a thief held a gun to your head...
  5. Hardware failure; storage media gets corrupted sometimes, or just stops working.
  6. Advising next-of-kin how to access the funds, without compromising them in the meantime.
  7. Getting out of sync; if your backup copy is missing some of the most recent private keys, they are at risk. Using a deterministic wallet helps solve this one.

I know this isn't a complete answer, but each case will depend on individual circumstances and this may still be useful enough to deserve an upvote :-)

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Highly Irregular
  • 11k
  • 6
  • 56
  • 105

Nobody else has mentioned physical security, yet. You may also like to consider the possibility of:

  1. Fire; do you have another copy of your private keys if your building burns down? Of course, storing additional copies adds additional risk of compromise.
  2. Natural disasters; depending on location, you may also need to consider the possibility of flood, tsunami, tornado, volcano. Also consider unnatural disasters such as war.
  3. Theft while unattended; if someone knew you had cryptocurrency of substantial value, might they just steal your computer hardware and read the contents of the hard disk? Is your password on a sticky note under your keyboard? (or on your monitor!)
  4. Theft while attended; ie if a thief held a gun to your head...
  5. Hardware failure; storage media gets corrupted sometimes, or just stops working.
  6. Advising next-of-kin how to access the funds, without compromising them in the meantime.

I know this isn't a complete answer, but each case will depend on individual circumstances and this may still be useful enough to deserve an upvote :-)