Turn Your Old Game Boy Into a Crypto Wallet (Gimmick? Or Pure Genius?)

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TL;DR

• Game Wallet is a GameBoy cartridge that doubles as a crypto wallet.

• You put the cartridge into your old GameBoy, boot up the game, talk to a specific in-game character and they give you the seed phrase (aka password) to your new wallet.

• Gimmicky? Yes. Insanely secure? Also yes. Devices that physically cannot connect to the internet are more secure by nature.

• A device that was created before cryptocurrency existed, that can never be attacked through digital phishing, and has been sitting on your shelf for 20 years is even better.

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How do you take a gimmicky idea and legitimize it, in just a few sentences?

Here's how the makers of Game Wallet (a GameBoy cartridge that doubles as a crypto wallet) did it:

"Devices that physically cannot connect to the internet are more secure by nature. A device that was created before cryptocurrency existed, that can never be attacked through digital phishing, and has been sitting on your shelf for 20 years is even better."

Here's how it works:

You put the cartridge into your old GameBoy, boot up the game, talk to a specific in-game character and they give you the seed phrase (aka password) to your new wallet.

Gimmicky? Yes.

Insanely secure? Also yes.

See, while hardware wallets from makers like Ledger and Trezor aren't permanently connected to the internet - they can be connected via bluetooth or USB.

The Game Wallet takes security to a whole new level (accidental pun, leaving it in) by making it physically impossible to bring online.

But hold up, how do you get your money off the thing without internet?

Fair question! Internet is needed to move crypto around, after all.

Short answer: it's clunky.

Long answer: you'd have to enter the seed phrase that was created for you in-game, on another internet connected device (like a Ledger or a Trezor).

Which is a terrible option if you plan on frequently spending/trading your crypto holdings.

BUT! If you want to store your crypto and not touch it for the next, say, decade?

This might be the most secure storage option out there. Because until you type your seed phrase into that second internet connected device - your crypto cannot be moved.