It is weird to see that people trust AI to evaluate the security of whatever HWW they use. These models cannot form independent opinion, and only repeat what people already said. From my testing, they get an egregious number of things extremely wrong. But I guess these models are trained to *sound* like an expert in everything, so…

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Don’t overcomplicate your code View quoted note →

If you are disposing of your Coldcard, please take extra measures to overwrite the seed and PIN before disposing of it.

There are too many falsehoods being spread about security. I guess it is the Dunning-Kruger curve, which is expected. Podcasts and HWW companies are to blame. View quoted note →

What do people actually think the benefits of a Bitcoin-only edition of an HWW are?!

I have pushed an update to Damus Translate which should increase the quality of nuanced translations and reduce some false positives

Maybe it would be beneficial to have a series of blog posts demystifying hardware wallets and Bitcoin security.

Good morning. If you are using a Coldcard-generated seed, please move your funds immediately. Here is an explanation of what went down without the influencer slop: View quoted note →

And, after this incident, what will change? All of this will still happen: ✅ Usage of insecure chips ✅ Basically no code review except once-in-a-while audits ✅ Firmware development done by people with no cryptography experience and the list goes on The founders of these companies are so disconnected from the risks of their products

It is unfortunate to see that so much great Nostr stuff has been consumed by the AI slop virus