Are Paper Wallets Dead?
Created: October 11, 2020
Updated: October 11, 2020
Paper wallets were considered the safest way for ordinary people to store their Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies (I will use Bitcoin to stand in for all cryptocurrencies in the rest of the article) until around 2017. In addition, paper wallets were a convenient way to give Bitcoin as a gift. Then the advent of hardware wallets, such as Trezor, Ledger, and KeepKey, became the cool way to store your Bitcoin. Are paper wallets just a quaint historical footnote of the infancy of Bitcoin?