 Well, Michelle asset news. My name is Rob. And today, we want to talk about is security. And if you've been living under a rock, it's now 2023 in January, you know that it's very important to keep your crypto with yourself, not your keys, not your crypto. I'm going to give you three reasons why you should take it off exchanges. No, the reasons are Celsius Voyager and FTX. If you want to leave your crypto exchanges, be my guest. But over time, it's not a bad idea to take those off. And the question is, then, well, how do you do it? I use a lot of I talked about this a lot, my nano ledger X. But there's another option on the block. And that option is Arculus. And if you take a look here, it's actually quite easy. Now, there are some differences. And we're going to get into the security, how to set it up, how to use it, of course, how these things differ. But basically, this is what it is. You've got a card. And it looks just like this was one of the video I have mine right here. And essentially, these are your private keys, it's stored right here on your card. These are your keys. So when we say not your keys, not your crypto, well, you have your keys, they are right here. We're going to set that up today. Now we take a look at it. Actually, the question is, what is Arculus? So Arculus is another cold storage device. And the people behind it is Compusecure, or Composecure, excuse me. And they are a public traded company that listen on NASDAQ. Ticker name is CMPO. They have got 20 years of experience developing innovative secure payment solutions worldwide. They manufacture tens of millions of metal cards in New Jersey, each year for the largest banks in the world. Now they are in and they've done this for quite some time couple years now, cold storage. So Arculus is a web three enabled wallet that features NFT storage as well. And viewing through the Arculus, wallet app. And how it works essentially is that video you just saw, you just tap it next to your phone. And when you're trying to send out crypto, not when you're receiving when you want to send out crypto, you just tap it and away it goes. It's not connected to anything. And if you lose it or it gets stolen, no one else can use it but you because there is three factor authentication, we'll get to that in a second. And how this works is the card communicates with your wallet app via tapped to transact secure NFC connection, no Bluetooth, no Wi Fi, no USB, no cords. And that is essentially what it's trying to replace. With of course, the analyzer, which you have to charge it. This thing will actually keep a charge, but it also will use Bluetooth on certain devices. And of course, if you haven't charged it and it doesn't have electricity, well, we can't use it as a bit different here when we're using our Arculus card. So to dig into it and talk about how this three factor authentication works. So first of all, when it says that nobody can use it, but you that's true. But if somebody has your card that can use it, but to get into your phone where the app is held so you can actually send out crypto. First, you're going to have a biometric lock and see if they're going to be face ID or a thumbprint depending on your particular smartphone device. So that's the first step. Second step is a six digit numeric pen. So even if somebody steals your phone, they're going to have to will probably steal your face or your thumb. Hopefully it doesn't happen to you. The next part is they're going to have to get know your six digit numeric pen. And the third part, which they might have, they might have this on them. If you store it like I do with my phone or I have actually my wallet in the back and I can put it right here. But it doesn't matter because you have to get through all three of these things in unison. And if you're wondering, which I was wondering, well, how does this differ from the other devices? Because we take a look here. Arculus, as far as ease of use, well, it is pretty easy. That's true. And then of course, other cold store devices, let's just call it a nano ledger. Or a follow display. It's not as easy as, as of course, the Arculus and with hot wallets. Well, those are super easy, but they're always connected to the internet. Security, all pretty good hot wallets and not so much, but very easy. No charge required. Three factor authentication, view storage, share NFTs. Well, they can all do that and offers live customer support. I got to tell you that is one of the things that I like to see. And then also in the FAQ is the question I always have was, well, what can I store in here? And what can I send and receive? And pretty much there's a there's a long list. I'm not going to go over it. It's relatively extensive, but not everything. I would say, you know, we've got about 28 or so different cryptos that are offered here. You can store send receive. And also there's an option to buy and swap. I'm not a fan of buying and swapping on cold store devices, probably, probably because of different companies that are associated with that and the outrageous fees. But we'll take a look. So that is Arculus in a nutshell. And the first thing we need to do is figure out, well, how exactly do I download this? So it's going to come in this nice nifty little box. You're going to open this sucker up. It's going to have pretty much three things. It's going to have your, it looks like your my recovery sheet. It's going to have your Arculus card itself. And then it has this. Let's get started. And the basically what you want to do is hold this up and just like, you know how to do this because we've all lived through coronavirus. Now we know how to scan everything for a menu or anything else or if you scan for crypto. We're just going to take our phone and we're going to scan this device. So here's my phone. I'm just going to get going here. And then of course for me, it could be different for you. It's going to swipe down. There's my scanner itself. And I'm going to put that right in the center and say, all right, let's get started. It's going to take me right to the website itself. Sure. And let's get started. Let's get started. Download the Arculus wallet app. That's very easy. And I have an app. I mean, I have an Apple, excuse me, or an iPhone. I'm going to click on download the app store. I'm going to get the actual app itself. And yeah, I'm going to double click to install this. And now we got it. So now we're just going to click on get started, accept the terms and policies. I should probably read those. But let's be honest, I'm not going to ready to scan tap and hold your card in the back of your smartphone. So this right here is where we get to the meat and potatoes. So this is going to be our private keys. And it's going to put those into this car. So tap and hold your car to the back of your smartphone. All right. And there goes tap and hold your car to the back of your smartphone. And what I'm going to do is I want to create a new wallet. I'm going to click on create a new wallet. I'm going to create a pin. And it is six digits. So I want to put in my pin 123456. Just kidding. That's not what it is. And there we go. Creating wallet 60% complete 80% and voila, we have a wallet. So it's going to say here's my secret phrase. Now you can't see that because I grade it all out. But there is 123456. So there is 12 words that I'm going to write down on this handy daddy card that they gave me. Now, I would also recommend that you put this somewhere safe, like a stonebook. And I have multiple ones of those. Those are smudge proof, rain proof, wet proof, and they are where I store everything. I've got a couple of those. So I highly recommend to not put it on a piece of paper and go, I'm sure I'll find it at some point because when you lose it, it's going to hurt you. I lost 20,000 Cardano that way. Don't be me. So I'm going to write those down right now. Great. So I did it. I'm going to say I wrote down the phrase. And I was going to ask me, of course, make sure I actually did it. I'm not lying to it. So let me do that real quick. And I will confirm that. Great. And I'm all set. Go to the home screen. So right now you'll see that I have 0.00. Oh, look at that. It's already got a little Bitcoin, Ethereum, USD, COCT, and XRP. And of course, right here in the very bottom where it says to add assets, I can add whatever I want to. Now I like this part here because I can add as much as I want to. Now with Nano Ledger, it's a little bit different. You have to download these things and hopefully it has enough room and you have to update and all that stuff. But I can do as many as I want to. FTT token. Hilarious. X, Link, Loop Ring, Mono, Matic, Sure, Maker. Let's just see how many I can do here. Quants, Super Rare, Sandbox, Sushi, Uniswap. We're in fine, whatever. And we'll apply. And look at that. See, I like that. It makes things just so much simpler just to do something. That's very cool. I do like that. That's pretty awesome. So I'll just use Bitcoin. Great. You can receive, send, and swap. So to receive is very easy. Click on receive. And that of course is my, well, my Bitcoin wallet address. And what I can do is I can take some Bitcoin and transfer it over, which I'm going to do right now with my Nano Ledger. And actually, I don't think anybody can feel is like, I can leave this out here. This is a public address. I can leave this anywhere. And if you want to send me Bitcoin, go right ahead. I have no problem with that. But then when I want to send something, it's a little bit different. So let me send some to here. And I want to show you how to, how you can spend it later. All right, so great. Then there it is. And I gotta tell you, it took about 10 minutes or so, nine, 10 minutes. So I know people will always talk about Bitcoin, how it's going to be a currency. You need to speed things up. I think if we could use the lightning now work a little bit more, we'd be right on track. Anyhow. So now that we have Bitcoin, let me show you exactly how this works. If I want to send this to somebody else. So I'm going to send this to somebody, a Bitcoin address. I'm going to find one of my own. I'm going to place this in here. Click on done. And then let's see how much Bitcoin I'm going to spend. I'm going to send about, well, let's just send out $5. Right. Click on done again. Balance not available. Well, I don't know because I think I'm doing everything right here, but it says fear balance not available. So let's go check in with Arculus and see what's the problem. Well, good news because there is supposed to be live customer support. So let's find out that's actually true. So we're going to go back to Arculus. Get Arculus.com. Click on contact us. Get help. Get solutions. Sure. Get help. And type your questions here. And I keep getting the error of fee error balance not available. So let's see what it says. Search. Feeds. Of course, there's fees. I have no section. I don't have anything else. We'll bash where we did that. Did that. Let's go to help. Help right here. He's going to ask us to type in our question. Sure. I keep getting this error message. What is that? Now that's not it. Let's get in touch. Leave a message. Name. Give us error message of available. See image below. And I already just screen shot of this. So I will send it over and we'll see what they say. So yeah, they actually did reach out. It took about five or six minutes, but it was pretty quickly. And gentlemen, I named Nick. Email me. It says, Rob, thanks for reaching out. Please ensure you run the latest version of the Arculus app. You can check this by going to settings tab. And I said, well, look, man, I just downloaded it. But here's what I got. Version 2.2.0. Build 184, whatever it was. I go, that's the latest version because I just downloaded it. And he goes, okay. Thanks for letting me know. And he wrote me back in like two minutes. And if never tried, please completely close the app. So it's not running in the background. Then relaunch the app and attempt your transaction again. So I did that. And that didn't work. But he did say here, if you continue to encounter issues, please delete and reinstall the Arculus app. And then restore your wallet using your 12 word recovery phrase. So I gotta tell you, we're after that. Things aren't going too hot. But thankfully I did write them down like we did say. So I just recovered it. And then voila, lo and behold, I was able to move things around. So let's just jump into my phone. I'll show you what it looks like. So again, here we are. My phone, I'm going to open up the Arculus wallet app. And go to the login screen, I suppose. And it's going to ask me the same thing again. Hold this. And I did it. Sinking wallet. So now, of course, I have less money because the price of Bitcoin went down. I'm recording this the next day later. So where's I'm going to do? I'm going to click on Bitcoin. I want to send this out. And let's see. I'm going to go grab my wallet address. Let me paste this in. And there we go. I'm going to click on done. And then to move some Bitcoin around, I got .000421. Let me just put in .000420. That's .927. Because I need to save some things for some fees, obviously. And I'm going to click on next. Enter your PIN code. One, two, three, five, six. Just kidding. And now this is where the magic comes in. Again, you can't do these things. You can't move things around without this card. So I'm going to hold this up to the card. Sign transaction. Please keep your phone attached to your Arculus card for one minute. I can do that. No big deal. And voila, I just got sent it back. Let's return to the home screen. There's a couple of things I need to make mention of that is this. So just like we had, we had three factor authentication. We can see that, of course, we had the PIN. That was one of the factor authentication. We had the card. But what happened to the biometrics? You have to go to settings in the lower right-hand corner. And where it says authorization, enable 3FA PIN code. So again, you're going to click on here to activate the biometric login. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to log out and see how this works out. So I'm going to log in again with Arculus Wallet. And then now is where we get, do you want to allow Arculus Wallet to use face ID? And of course, I'm going to say yes, because I want to use this third factor authentication. So now, if I want to send anything, I have to have this in my face. It has to be the PIN and it has to be the card. And that is essentially Arculus in a nutshell. Now, without the little hiccup, I mean, it was interesting that we could see that, hey, even if you lost things, you could restore everything with your recovery key and it works like that. But that's all we have for today. So look, there will be a link in the description. It's not an affiliate link. I wasn't paid for this promotion. I would like to say thank you because Arculus allowed me to give two of their cold storage wallets away for our January sweat coin step challenge. So I appreciate it very much. And that's it. So if you like today's video, give it a thumbs up, consider subscribing. And that's it for today. So I appreciate you stopping by and I'll see you on the next one.