BenWestgate / Bails

Bails is a Bitcoin solution protecting against surveillance, censorship, and confiscation. It installs Bitcoin Core to Tails encrypted Persistent Storage, creates and recovers Bitcoin Core wallets from Codex32 (BIP93) seed backups, and creates backup Bails USB sticks and shareable blank Bails USB sticks. Learn more in README.md.
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Update README about hardware and persistent storage #43

Closed epiccurious closed 1 year ago

epiccurious commented 1 year ago

cc @BenWestgate

epiccurious commented 1 year ago

Tried to reorganize a bit without losing fidelity

epiccurious commented 1 year ago

Relates to #23

BenWestgate commented 1 year ago

In lists either use all fragments or all sentences, never both.

The minimum system requirements are likely 2GB of RAM. "Any computer made in the last 10 years" is how yeti explained it. But now any from the last 15 are likely sufficient for minimum.

Remember Bails is portable, what OS you need to sync is not what you need to use Bails with. You might clone Bails from your friend's USB who synced in a day with 16GB RAM. Or plug it into a PC you borrowed to sync faster.

2GB and 3GB is plenty to stay synched with if it doesn't get too far behind and the usb is fast.

BenWestgate commented 1 year ago

In practice the "index card" is baloney, I was as wide as the entire width of 8.5" paper writing legible and my other tester turned the paper horizontally and used over 9 inches.

You could fit it on an index card by wrapping it in 3,4,6 lines but because this requires keeping line numbers it increases effort and risk of loss.

Nobody gets confused writing it in one long line like they were shown it. And that should maximize compatibility with other codex32 wallets.

epiccurious commented 1 year ago

Pushed a change with the three improvements:

BenWestgate commented 1 year ago

I'll take a look at it later tonight

I left more comments on your commit itself. I guess that's called a "review" on here.

epiccurious commented 1 year ago

Ok, I'll check those comments.

epiccurious commented 1 year ago

@BenWestgate I don't see the comments on my commit. Can you double-check if you saved/submitted them?

BenWestgate commented 1 year ago

@BenWestgate I don't see the comments on my commit. Can you double-check if you saved/submitted them?

https://github.com/BenWestgate/Bails/pull/43/files/7f7135bcdce81fa60c564d5dffcc27d733a82500