Just comes down to managing your personal risk. The more you trust yourself with your keys, the less you need to trust someone else like Handcash. Seems like Handcash’s experience is that people aren’t very good at managing their own keys, so outsourcing key management is prudent. Ultimately, as the industry develops, there will be many options and taking multiple is going to be the easiest way of avoiding the inconvenience of losing ones keys. I say inconvenience because I think in the future bitcoin will be recoverable. This is another plus to using a company like Handcash or a custodian... if there is a system error, their organizational heft should expedite retrieval
Just comes down to managing your personal risk. The more you trust yourself with your keys, the less you need to trust someone else like Handcash. Seems like Handcash’s experience is that people aren’t very good at managing their own keys, so outsourcing key management is prudent. Ultimately, as the industry develops, there will be many options and taking multiple is going to be the easiest way of avoiding the inconvenience of losing ones keys. I say inconvenience because I think in the future bitcoin will be recoverable. This is another plus to using a company like Handcash or a custodian... if there is a system error, their organizational heft should expedite retrieval