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Sam Okafor

Senior Editor, Wallets & Security
Hardware wallets Seed backup & multisig Inheritance planning
Sam tries to break every wallet he reviews — not the cryptography, but the human parts: the backup step, the restore flow, the instructions in the box. Every device on this site has been set up from scratch, wiped, and restored from its own seed backup before it gets a score.
A former application security engineer, he spent nine years on incident response before covering bitcoin custody full-time. He writes our wallet reviews, the self-custody guide, and the inheritance-planning material most review sites leave out — because the failure mode that actually loses people their coins is rarely a hack.
30+
wallets bought at retail and restore-tested
2017
holding and using bitcoin since
41
reviews & guides published here
HOW I REVIEW
Every wallet gets set up as a first-timer would, then deliberately destroyed: factory reset, restore from seed on a different device, confirm the same addresses return. I score the recovery experience as heavily as the hardware, because that is the step people actually fail. Our full methodology →

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DISCLOSURES
Sam buys every wallet he reviews at retail and holds bitcoin in the devices he recommends; manufacturers get no preview or veto of reviews. Reviews may contain affiliate links, which never affect scores. Some drafts are prepared with AI assistance and are fact-checked and edited by the author before publishing.
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Every review and guide by this author is checked by a second editor before publishing.
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