Don’t let a firmware dictate your fate, Roll your own dice before it’s too late. If the device makes the seed alone, The coins you hold are not your own. It’s time to meme this into everyone’s consciousness. I’m still pissed, I was at a Bitcoin meetup last night, within a week of the ColdCard fuck up and I sat their completely flawed as some excellent humans and Bitcoiners told the audience: ‘moving forward, it is ‘probably ok’ to trust device generated entropy’. Their rationale: “expecting new people to roll their own entropy was too much inconvenience and would not scale to 8 billion people”. I understand their point. However, what happened to, “Don’t trust, verify”? I’m not sure about anyone else, but I definitely did not get into Bitcoin for its ‘convenience’. I’m gobsmacked to have to ask, after the week we’ve just had, “Did we learn nothing?” If you are securing meaningful amounts of your life energy in Bitcoin, please take 10 minutes of your time, to generate your own random seed phrase. The months, years or decades of stored energy you are securing is worth 10minutes of your focused attention.

@Michael Dunworth great quote from Peter on his recent WBD “It would make Bitcoin blush” … I’m pretty sure I’m going to find a way to use this… completely out of Peter’s context. Great quote!

Quote of the day delivered to my children. “Manner are free to give but expensive to withhold”