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Ava · 95w
Reminder: COLDCARD is not open source. #cybersecgirl #coldcard #opensourse Open source encourages competition, and furthers development. Open source is a foundational principle of bitcoin and the #...
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@DETERMINISTIC OPTIMISM 🌞 has thoughts. 😅

For me personally, after talking to LOTS of bitcoiners who are deeply technical and very committed to open source AND still will only use a Coldcard, I'm never going to use anything else.

Call it social heuristics if you want, but I guarantee that 99.9% of bitcoiners (me included) have no idea how complicated it is to keep keys properly secure. If "verifiable source" is the tradeoff required, so be it.
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urza · 95w
What? You can use Trezor to secure your keys that is proper open source. No tradeoff is needed in this regard.
Kuba · 95w
It is written there already. Use Trezor, the real open source hw wallet.
nik ⚡️🟠🟣 · 94w
Totally agreed with you! Keys segregation and “almost trusted” hardware are a very complicated topics!
JesterHodl · 66w
I think it is a dick move, which has nothing to do with security.
cavemanf16 · 66w
Well, this post of yours will likely start a flamewar, but I’m on the side of you with ColdCard, primarily because it’s Bitcoin-only. “Open Source” means a lot of things, and I think it shouldn’t be exclusive to the GPL3 purist language. But the Bitcoin-only focus of ColdCard means it won...
xiangcai · 66w
the most secure way is to build a hw wallet by yourself by drawing schematics doing layout writing fw doing tons of debug then you can sleep like a baby. but life is too short. it's impossible for 99.99
Sigmund · 66w
I don't care what wallet you use as long as it's a part of a multisig setup where other keys are stored on a different vendor's hw 😉
ChipTuner · 66w
>"If "verifiable source" is the tradeoff required, so be it." How are you equating a company telling you, in order to have a secure device we will not be sharing the source code? Aren't you just accepting the "trust me bro" attitude, because the company told you it's more secure if they don't sha...
the axiom · 66w
this comment misses the point entirely