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Security and Self-Custody

Hardware wallets, multi-sig, inheritance planning, and what an exchange failure teaches about holding your own keys.

General information only. Nothing in this curriculum takes your objectives, financial situation or needs into account, and it is not personal financial advice. Crypto assets are volatile and you can lose money.

Pillar being written

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What is known about this cluster

Pillar working title
How to store crypto safely: a security guide that scales with your portfolio
Curriculum position
Cluster 5 of 9
Status
Routed and designed. Awaiting the pillar.

What this cluster covers

4 supporting articles sit under this pillar. None is published yet, so none of them is linked below.

  1. In production

    Best hardware wallets compared

    The main hardware wallets side by side: what each supports, how each handles recovery, and what the trade-offs are.

  2. In production

    What is multi-sig and do you need it

    What multi-signature custody is, what it protects against, and the cost in complexity that comes with it.

  3. In production

    Crypto inheritance planning: what happens if something happens to you

    How self-custodied crypto is lost when the holder is not there, and what a workable succession plan involves.

  4. In production

    Exchange failures: the Digital Surge lesson

    What happened at Digital Surge, what customers could and could not recover, and what it changes about leaving crypto on an exchange.

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Where this material lives today

Each cluster maps to a section of collectiveshift.io covering the same ground. These are the pages answering this one today. They open on the live site.

Every link above was checked on 3 August 2026.

Free to read, as each cluster lands

Each cluster is free to read the day it is published. While the rest is being written, the free training covers the 7-step system on video.

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