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In 2016, we did a major overhaul of the Trezor website and switched the narrative from "wallet" to "signing device."
Few people know this, but Trezor could act as a signer for SSH, GPG, U2F, and FIDO2 almost from day one.
Sales dropped to near zero overnight. Nobody knew why to buy a signer - everyone was looking for a bitcoin wallet. We reverted within three days.
So @Excellion opinion isn't unpopular. It's just naive.
Few people know this, but Trezor could act as a signer for SSH, GPG, U2F, and FIDO2 almost from day one.
Sales dropped to near zero overnight. Nobody knew why to buy a signer - everyone was looking for a bitcoin wallet. We reverted within three days.
So @Excellion opinion isn't unpopular. It's just naive.
Unpopular Opinion: We should rename “Bitcoin hardware wallets” to “Bitcoin signing devices.”View quoted post on X
It’d fix so many problems in understanding for Bitcoin beginners and make it evident why a passphrase is needed.
Everything is a @SeedSigner with extra steps and tradeoffs.
Agree fully - it isn't even a debate. There's no reason to trust something fully closed and unauditable.
Yes, even some "open" solutions aren't open enough yet. But it's a journey, and the world is clearly moving from "trust me bro" to decentralized, auditable systems - because they're simply less fragile.
Bitcoin has a long history of failed "trust me bro". Don't repeat it.
And yes, AI is teaching us a lesson now. The answer isn't to close everything back up - it's better architecture and better engineering. Closedness and "trust me bro" are the enemy.
Yes, even some "open" solutions aren't open enough yet. But it's a journey, and the world is clearly moving from "trust me bro" to decentralized, auditable systems - because they're simply less fragile.
Bitcoin has a long history of failed "trust me bro". Don't repeat it.
And yes, AI is teaching us a lesson now. The answer isn't to close everything back up - it's better architecture and better engineering. Closedness and "trust me bro" are the enemy.
For Ledger, open source vs. closed source isn't a debate. They both have purpose and merit.
In the wake of the recent industry exploits, Ledger CTO @P3b7_ explains why open source is great, but isn't a security property.View quoted post on X
That's literally how I've lived for the past decade: everything offline or self-hosted, unreachable from the Internet.
the internet may become a dark forestView quoted post on X
This is how over-reaction look like, folks.
What absolutely terrible advice - using custom, vibe-coded software on a standard computer to generate recovery seeds.
This is a disaster in the making.
What absolutely terrible advice - using custom, vibe-coded software on a standard computer to generate recovery seeds.
This is a disaster in the making.
Rolling a die 60 times takes 2 minutes.
Converting it to a seed phrase takes 1 minute.
Is your Bitcoin worth 3 minutes of your time?View quoted post on X
