Modern Wallet Security: Understanding Cloud Backups vs Passkeys
How passkeys and cloud backups compare in terms of wallet security and convenience.
I'm Michail. I co-founded Rehive in 2015 and have been building it ever since. It's a platform companies use to launch and run their own stablecoin and fintech apps. We started in Stellenbosch, and I've since lived in San Francisco and Amsterdam. I'm now in Barcelona, where my wife and daughter are from.
A series of notes I wrote in 2024 while experimenting with Doppio, a side project that became the basis for Rehive's move into white-label self-custody.
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