Ballet PRO Series Crypto Wallet Review

Late last year I wrote a review of the Ballet REAL Series which is described as “The World’s First non-electronic multicurrency wallet” aimed at the novice market. The REAL series makes some interesting tradeoffs between security and convenience that has garnered a fair amount of controversy on Crypto Twitter. Personally, I think the tradeoffs are reasonable for certain usecases and storage amounts. For instance, a novice user may be more at risk of messing-up private key generation and secure seed storage on their own. Ballet REAL Series, in contrast, might actually be the safer solution, even after factoring for its trusted nature.

The all-new Ballet PRO series aims to address some of these criticisms by putting more control in the hands of the user. The way it works: the user is in charge of generating the BIP38 passphrase on their end, along with encrypting it offline (the intermediate code), ensuring that this secret information is not shared with anyone. The encrypted private key can only be decrypted by the passphrase created by the user thanks to the BIP38 scheme. More technical details can be found here.