Hi Sovtoshi, I think you missed a step, try to follow the whole guide again. I have tested it and it’s working on my side.

You can always use an old phone without Internet access as an offline signing device, or maybe an old computer (also without Internet/Wifi, Bluetooth, etc). For mobile phones, there are some Android distributions that let you disable wifi and data. Some Krux devices are under $40. You can also buy second hand Raspberry Pi Zero and some spare parts to assemble a SeedSigner

What are some other options? Maybe not perfect, but decent. I’m guessing that the most common choice would be phone apps.

Hi PersistentAnchovy, the risk of creating the hot wallet every time is that you are placing your seed (access to funds) in a device that has internet access, memory, etc… I’d not recommend that.

For a more secure way to sign transactions, use an air-gapped device like SeedSinger, Krux, Jade, etc. I’m planning a new article on how to sign air-gapped transactions with the SeedSigner.

If you’re using this as a very “cold storage” vault, and won’t need to sign transactions very often, what do you think of the option of just creating a new hot wallet in Sparrow every time you need to sign a transaction? So you’d have to type in your seed phrase again, but that’s not a big deal, just 12 words.

Drawbacks?

It just seems like the hardware wallet comes with it’s own problems.

Hi! I’m glad you’ve found this article interesting 💪 got your sats 🙌

Thank you for your ideas, I’ll add a QR on the footer for improving visibility and consider adding a SimpleX address!

This was the guide I have been looking for. Thank you so much.

I help a lot of people set up their wallets and really try to teach them about privacy and not to rely on exchanges and any KYC. Especially with people in strict countries this is very useful.

I dont want to give my email, even a burner, as overall I try to avoid it. Perhaps for a contact you could include a SimpleX address, Nostr Pubkey or even a Signal username? I just really want to move on from email for communicating.

I wanted to tip you in Satoshi and noted your coffee machine project. That is really awesome. I spend about 5 mins trying to find a QR code to scan and send. Nothing obvious was liked anywhere apart from a QR code that comes up when you scroll. This links to a Wallet of Satoshi custodial wallet? Will send some there in the hope it gets to you. Comment welcome….

Good idea, will add the “desktop” version to the article. Thank you 💪

Same weird UI here. I downloaded and verified (all went well). I ran Sparrow normal via double click, and it opened like a charm. But after your step to test it via -d command. For somehow, the UI now opens as Swing Terminal Frame.

Make sure you’re not downloading the Server Version. But the Desktop instead!