rare marc zeller w advice, worth sharing:
Let me try again; don't just bookmark this do it. Give the link to this tweet to your AI and have it help you:
1) Use
@ambire as your main wallet; it handles simulation, complex tx, and is designed to work well with
@safe 2) Deploy a Safe now. I don't care if it's a 1/1 linked to your hot wallet for now; it's fine. It's already better this way, and with Ambire, using it is seamless.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE THE SAFE UI; Ambire will do it all for you.
3a) Generate a real seed; use pen and paper. You'll get the fancy steel stuff later if you want.
3b) Too lazy for the seed stuff? ok, use a "hotwallet" for your signer generated with a passkeys with an good password manager, you have a Mac? The Passwords app is fine; you're a Revolut client? NordPass is included; you ready to spend a bit? 1Password has a great API, and you'll love it once you're AI-pilled.
5) The signer wallet must hold no funds, doesn't hold gas, doesn't do any txs; it's the key to unlock the door of your safe; it signs, and that's it. You'll learn later that proposing (creating tx), signing, and executing tx are 3 different jobs that don't need to be done by the same wallets.
6a) Now create a second hot wallet, "executooor," and send some gas to it, a few bucks of ETH suffice. Use
gas.zip to have some gas on every chain you use.
6b) Don't want to do that? No worries, use the "gas tank" feature on Ambire; it does the same job you can always improve later.
That's it for step one, and just that you're safer than Bold and 99% of guys out there.
Step 2 is buying a hardware wallet and rotating the safe signer with it for much safer holding
Once you're there, you can start considering a 1/2 with a second hw or with an old phone you have in your drawer that you've factory reset and will use only for that. You keep it out of easy reach; it's your insurance if something bad happens to your main signer.
Then maybe a 2/3 and the nerdy stuff; you can always do "better," but the foundation of all that is getting your first safe deployed and climbing from there.
Do it now; it's not hard, it's worth it.
