In-Person Workshop
Bitcoin Cold Storage Fundamentals
Experience the workflow before you rely on it.
A practical in-person workshop where beginners handle real Coldcard signing devices, learn how cold storage works, and understand the self-custody process before buying hardware, moving Bitcoin, or attempting it alone.
Get the devices in your hands before you rely on them.
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Why In Person Matters
You cannot learn the physical workflow properly from a screen.
Videos and articles can explain cold storage, but they cannot show you how it feels to use a real signing device.
In this workshop, you handle multiple Coldcard models in person. You see the screens, buttons, menus, anti-phishing words, PIN entry, device identity, firmware menu, and microSD workflow in a controlled learning environment.
The goal is simple: understand the tools before you rely on them.
First Session, Burleigh Heads, 27 June 2026
Need Help Sooner?
The workshop is a group learning session. It gives you practical familiarity with the tools and workflow.
Real custody still needs your own private process, your own device, your own backups, your own recovery plan, and your own time.
If you already hold Bitcoin, need help reviewing your custody process, or want guidance specific to your situation, book a private Bitcoin self-custody guidance session.
Why This Workshop Exists
Self-custody is simple in principle, but serious in practice.
Many people buy a hardware wallet and assume the job is done. It is not. Serious Bitcoin self-custody involves keys, backups, recovery, documentation, address verification, device handling, and the discipline to move slowly.
This workshop gives beginners a safe way to experience the workflow before applying it to real funds.
Device Handling Lab
Get the hardware in your hands before you make decisions.
A hardware wallet is not an idea. It is a physical tool. Confidence comes from understanding how it works, what it does, what it does not do, and how it fits into the wider custody process.
In the workshop, attendees handle a range of Coldcard signing devices and learn how different models compare in practical use.
- How the devices feel to hold and operate
- How screens, buttons, and menus affect confidence
- How anti-phishing words and PIN entry work
- How device identity and master fingerprints help verification
- How microSD airgapping works in practice
- How a signing device differs from wallet software
- Why buying a hardware wallet is not the same as having a custody process
What You Will Learn
The concepts that matter.
- What Bitcoin self-custody actually means
- Why exchange balances are not the same as direct key control
- What a Bitcoin signing device does
- How Coldcard devices work in practice
- How seed phrases, passphrases, backups, and recovery fit together
- How Sparrow can be used as a watch-only wallet
- Why demonstration wallets should not be used for future Bitcoin storage
What You Will Do
Hands-on, practical.
- Handle multiple Coldcard signing devices
- Navigate real menus
- Understand PIN entry and anti-phishing words
- View device identity and master fingerprint information
- Create a temporary demonstration wallet
- Export wallet information by microSD
- Import a watch-only wallet into Sparrow
- See how signing devices and wallet software work together
- Practise the workflow before transacting
Who It Is For
This workshop is for people who:
- hold Bitcoin on an exchange and want to understand self-custody before withdrawing
- are considering a hardware wallet but want to handle devices before buying
- own a hardware wallet but are not confident using it
- want hands-on practice before transacting
- want to understand seed phrases, passphrases, backups, and recovery
- find online wallet advice confusing and want physical, guided experience
- want to understand how Coldcard, microSD, and Sparrow fit together
What This Workshop Is Not
This workshop is not about trading, price predictions, altcoins, DeFi, NFTs, or crypto speculation.
It is not financial, legal, tax, SMSF, investment, or estate planning advice.
The focus is Bitcoin self-custody operations: wallets, keys, backups, recovery, documentation, and responsibility.
This workshop is not a hardware wallet sales session. Arise Bitcoin does not sell devices, receive commissions, or make purchase decisions for attendees.
Safety
Demonstration wallets only. No Bitcoin is transacted.
All devices and wallets used in the workshop are for demonstration and learning.
Attendees must not bring, show, type, upload, photograph, or share any private seed phrase, private key, passphrase, PIN, password, or wallet recovery information.
Service Boundary
Arise Bitcoin provides Bitcoin-only self-custody operational guidance.
Arise does not take custody of keys, access wallets, hold seed phrases, sign transactions, broadcast transactions, or provide financial, legal, tax, SMSF, investment, or estate planning advice.
The client remains responsible for all decisions, wallets, backups, transactions, and outcomes.