You don’t. It’s not networked. It doesn’t need updates.

In fact, updates are only a risk. You physically remove anything that can allow updates to happen + anything that allows wireless networking.

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georgeecollins a day ago | parent | next [-]

How do you actually use funds like this? I mean, I know this is set aside for later. But if you had an emergency, how fast could you actually spend it?

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idiotsecant a day ago | parent [-]

Trivially. You can simply read the keys on the offline machine with your eyeballs and set up a software or hardware wallet elsewhere to access the account.

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lxgr a day ago | parent [-]

What is the offline machine even doing then? Seems like you could replace it with a sheet of paper.

	▲	idiotsecant 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		How do you do the math of generating the wallet keys with a piece of paper? Such a thing is technically possible but you wouldn't want to.

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lxgr a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Then your scheme falls apart as soon as a backwards incompatible update is adopted by the blockchain.