The Project

CipherStick is an all-in-one Bitcoin Suite focused on Tails OS and developed as a non-profit open source project.
It's focused on the strategy and integration of tools based on privacy and security technologies, by design. 
It was founded in 2022 and was formerly known as Bails.

Our Mission

Enabling non-technologists to use Bitcoin safely and easily, even when its use is restricted.

Features and Benefits

The CipherStick Suite installs Bitcoin Core on Tails OS and provides shortcuts to install Liana, Sparrow, and Bisq, focusing on privacy and discretion for users like journalists, activists, and privacy-conscious citizens.

Your Encrypted Protection

Combining Bitcoin Core and Tails, CipherStick offers strong anonymity for transactions and secure encrypted storage of Tails. CipherStick is the most private way to transact and store bitcoin. It ensures your money is protected from surveillance, censorship, and confiscation, leaving no trace of your Bitcoin use on the computer or the Internet.

CipherStick Meaning

The name “CipherStick” combines our focus on security and encryption (“Cipher”) with the portability and discreteness of a USB stick (“Stick”), making your data protection convenient and on-the-go.

The Project Origin

It’s first and foremost easy to use, free, quick to setup and very private.

CipherStick grew from the question:

How could everyone keep using Bitcoin easily and safely were it banned?

Because projects like CipherStick exist and work, the more people who use them, the less likely Bitcoin bans will ever be attempted.

I believe it’s extremely secure in relation to the effort it takes to setup and use, you get an isolated security focused free open-source operating system, strong encyption, Tor, verified signatures, a Bitcoin Core full node, and a shamir secret sharing backup in under an hour. And it doesn’t need a dedicated PC, just a dedicated USB stick.

Other options with similar privacy and setup time span either: aren’t free, are more error prone and/or give weaker security.

CipherStick does not make the most secure setup possible yet: offline multi-sig airgapped signing. It is meant for regular or occasional, high privacy transacting not storing National Treasures but a cold storage wallet for savings will come after Beta testers give feedback what they want to see next.
Life savings need multi-signature, offline, airgapped signers.

CipherStick would be appropriate for up to half a year's expenses.