What is the knots vs. Bitcoin score? The answer won’t be knowable instantly. #BIP110

Andreas Aantonopolous … discussing entropy and hardware wallets..including a discussion of @Coinkite ‘s pioneering retirement attack PROTECTION feature: verifiable dice roll entropy inclusion! Documentation here:

COLDCARD Documentation

Verifying Dice Roll Math

Documentation, tutorials, and other resources for COLDCARD, the world

@N et al wisely created a feature that protected the opt-in user from a bug that was exploited some 5 years later… Just think of how smart y’all would think these guys were if it were any other hardware wallet vendor whose wallet lacked sufficient entropy. I would like to see more hardware wallet vendors protect their users against their own products by choosing to implement user generated entropy inclusion in a provable fashion like coinkite did. Bad entropy will rear its head again somewhere…it will take more than one round of these beatings until the market learns. So let me ask: what protection do you have from your hardware wallet? I’m betting the best you can do is a passphrase, so don’t forget it! Lose that passphrase and your seedphrase isn’t very helpful!

The coldcard fiasco has a very very important and probably not good side effect: bitcoin is not fungible. When stolen cold card coins move into circulation, the first identifiable holder of said stolen coin will be sued in real life to return the coin…this could have massively disruptive effects on bitcoin as money. 🍿

You bIP110 supporters are so behind the times. I stopped spam on my node months ago, and I’m ashamed of you that you did not follow my lead of only accepting spam free 50 kb blocks.

Oh, have you heard? Did you know? There are only so many bitcoin. Better get some just in case it catches on!

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