I'm a 10+year BTC enthusiat and user, with deep knowledge of the value propositiona and functionalities.

Despite that, since I started accumalating BTC rather yound (over 10 year ago), I have always used a Electrum wallet that is considered "hot". Regardless, I have never had any security issues since I had every other precation to keep my keys etc. So the keys were mine, therefore the coins were also mine.

On Oct 28, the first day of my vacation, I had a goal to myself to setup and Tails + Electrum cold wallet to keep on holding my BTCs - I never sell, only buy.

Everything went smoothly, I made several tests before commiting to send the whole amount of BTC I had to the cold wallet - I tested sending funds to the watch wallet and then sending it back to the hot one, etc. No problems at all and it was fairly easy to do it myself.

I was finally ready to sending the remaning BTC and move forward to enjoy my vacation.…