@ShiShi21m Okay on second thought, this was the cop out response to avoid the crosshairs. But I should keep the discussion alive, it's valuable. This is Nostr. I think there's a part of me that favors those that have done a lot of the heavy lifting for me - like Coinkite - because the convenience of their product is, at least at first glance, worth sacrificing that visibility into the code. I can verify the dice roll algorithm. I can never plug this thing in to anything, ever. Me likey. I can transact cleanly. I get the paranoid security that I think a lot of maxis look for. So perhaps my brain is seeking to protect my peace in knowing that this avenue exists - I don't have to worry about recreating it myself. I'm giving up that last little bit of ownership of the design to this custodian, Coinkite, because in turn they give me something that I get warm fuzzies from. But if I'm brave here, I can't help but submit that... were a great hardware list to exist... and the software was FOSS... there's nothing stopping me from being able to give myself what I'm given by my Coldcard. Perhaps what I worry about - what I'm hesitating on - is the destruction of the enterprising incentive for such conveniences to be invented. I worry that if there's no promise of likely profit, would such hardware/software companion lists ever even be devised? It's a leap of faith to trust that they would. Perhaps I just need to learn to trust this community.

Cat Daddy - that's so on point!! And yes you can! Well said. Once you have taken an hour or 2 to build your own seedsigner, (or Spectre) a lot of those questions will be answered. with nuances. Aha moments. Quite fun too. Not even too techie. Wade a bit deeper into the water. Good people here too.

They built their market share on FOSS standard.