New 'Sound Wallet' Stores Your Private Keys on Vinyl
For digital currency users looking to secure their e-fortune, one project is offering a new way to store private keys: on vinyl. Sound Wallet promises to store users' private keys as encrypted audio files across a range of products - including CDs and 7-inch vinyl disks. Theodore Goodman, the brains behind the project, said he used the iconic format as it is the "ultimate archive medium". Records, tapes and digital audio. According to the product's website, Sound Wallets can be used to store any cryptocurrency, not just bitcoin. To construct the wallet, a user's BIP38-encrypted private key....
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