A question I would often receive when I was in private law practice, before coming to Unchained, was whether clients holding bitcoin are required to file FinCEN Form 114 (colloquially…
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The most common way to fund a bitcoin IRA is by a rollover from an existing retirement plan, often from a former employer. If you’re considering rolling over an employer…
In bitcoin, it’s always important to secure your seeds, but how exactly do you do that? In previous articles, we’ve discussed what seed phrases are and how they work, and…
If you’ve ever set up a bitcoin wallet, you should be familiar with a 12- or 24-word seed phrase (otherwise known as a seed backup, recovery phrase, seed words, mnemonic…
You might think of hardware wallets as the secure offline devices you use to store bitcoin, but technically they are the user interface for your seed, allowing you to sign…
A secure element is a specific type of microprocessor chip that can store and process highly sensitive information. These chips are integrated into a variety of devices that contain important…
As we regularly cover in our Continuing Education webinars, there are several key terms to know about as a bitcoin user. When it comes to protecting your bitcoin, few are…
If you use bitcoin multisig, whether that be through Caravan, Sparrow, Electrum, or an Unchained vault, you should know about something called a multisig wallet configuration file. This file contains…
If you understand the benefits of using multisignature to secure your bitcoin and why our vaults are one of the best ways to do so, you’re well on your way…
