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Right after FTX collapsed, people from the space started advocating decentralization. In fact, stalwarts, time and again, kept emphasizing the importance of self-custody and managing ones own wallet keys.

The U.S. is now in the midst of a banking crisis, and the community has yet again circled back to the same. They have started re-asserting that self-custody is the way and decentralization could help build a better system. According to on-chain data tweeted by Research and Data Analyst, James Straten, around 70k Bitcoin has been taken into self-custody since the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, justifying the communitys inclination.

In fact, in a recent tweet, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin also went on to talk about the said notion. He said,

Self-custody is important.

He went on to add that the social recovery and multisig paths were a great way to do so. Elaborating on the same in a Reddit post, Buterin said that he uses a multi-sig wallet personally to store the bulk of his funds. In fact, even the Ethereum Foundation treads on the same path.

Self-custody is important. And social recovery and multisig is a great way to do it.

A quick reddit post on how I think about choosing guardians for social recovery and multisig wallets:https://t.co/FY1iyJ6BFC

Buterin dubbed social recovery wallets to be a close cousin of multi-sig wallets. For these wallets, a single key can be used to sign transactions. However, if that key is lost, a group of keys held by other people can be used to recover the funds. In fact, the Ethereum founder went on to assert that social recovery wallets are much easier to use than multi-sig wallets. Putting forth his recommendation, he added,

Once social recovery wallets become mature enough, my recommendation will be to use social recovery for hot wallets that store a small portion of a person or organizations funds, and multisigs for cold wallets that store a person or organizationss savings.

Guardians are quite an integral part of the self-custody equation. In the post, Buterin chalked out the choices he personally makes with regard to guardians. First and foremost, he pointed out that it is alright for some of the guardians to be ones own devices. However, he emphasized that there shouldnt be too many and said,

It makes natural sense to have at least one guardian be a wallet on one of your own devices it doesnt reduce decentralization to do that, and after all, itisyour money.

Furthermore, he added that according to his rule of thumb, there should be enough guardians controlled by other people. So, even if one disappears, thered be enough other guardians left to recover funds.

He then highlighted the need to choose guardians who do not often talk to each other. In fact, guardians who do not know each other would be ideal because itd reduce the risk of them colluding. Elaborating on the same, he added,

Minimize correlations between your guardians as much as possible: dont choose two guardians who live in the same city (or ideally even the same country), or two guardians who use the same type of wallet, and have a balance between different operating systems.

Additionally, Buterin asserted that when a guardian is asked to approve an operation, they should not simply say yes immediately. According to the Ethereum founder, this would be a disaster for security. Highlighting a way to get around, he added,

My preferred protocol to avoid this is to instruct guardians toask a security question. That is, when you ask for a confirmation on your operation, the guardian should ask you something that only the two of you and very few other people know.

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