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Retire the Tails Bitcoin wallet

Reference: TPA-RFC-73: Tails infra merge roadmap - Bitcoin

  • Save a local copy of the Tails wallet (@intrigeri)
    • Note: there are multiple addresses on the Tails wallet
    • This can help: bitcoin-cli backupwallet $WALLET
  • Decide whether TPA should hold a long-term backup of the Tails wallet (@zen)
  • Confirm who is the $person that should have access to the Tails wallet (@intrigeri)
  • Give $person access to the Tails wallet (@intrigeri)
  • Ensure that $person can import the wallet into the tool they're using and have backups (@intrigeri)
  • Delete the local copy of the Tails wallet (@intrigeri) → This will be tracked elsewhere
  • Wait until the bitcoin.lizard VM is not needed by the Tails almost-retired accountants (@zen)
  • Delete the bitcoin.lizard VM (@zen)
    • remove the VM from Puppet code
    • remove the VM from Puppet Server and PuppetDB
    • stop the VM
    • delete the VM and its LVM volume(s)
Edited by zen
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