Thanks, I just approved you!

Thanks.

Lopp said he wouldn't be testing many more devices. So, I didn't get in touch with him.

If you want a good idea of how they'll fare, you can take a look at his Crypto Keys test, where he gave an overall A grade. They're the same form factor, but I used 316L stainless steel for mine, vs. 304 in the test.

Mine comes from a Batman story I was reading to my son 5 years ago.

It was the Riddler's "hypnotic hold" that made me think of Bitcoin, so I took it as a nym, but with a twist: Hypnotic HODL.

Then I shortened it to Hypno.

Dude.

I'm not excited; I'm proud that my work is recognized and discussed.

Normies don't know about CBDCs. My goal is to teach them the dangers, not to orange-pill them. The article would be ignored if I made it about Bitcoin. People in France are not open-minded about it yet.

Go outside and touch grass, you'll feel better.

No, I put an open-source license 😅

My original goal was to publish it for my mom, anyway. And then for anyone having no idea of the dangers of the European CBDC.

Thanks for the mention and the sweet sats.

Happy if my post can bring value to the community.

Cheers.

Thanks for taking the time to read and comment, I appreciate it.

I had to do a bit of studying to fully grasp the nuance you pointed out.

I edited the sentence to make sure it's technically correct:

Losing one private key means losing access to the funds at that one address, assuming hardened derivation is used.

I tried to keep it brief without getting too deep into the technicals, as this article targets general users.

Thanks!

If you want to learn more about this piece, and the project it's part of, you can read this post: https://bitpopart.com/2026/01/08/beautiful-souls/

And I think I saw #3 is being sold right now, if you want to get one!

When I launch Seed Keys, I posted on SN here: #1251946 but feel free to ask if you have any other questions.

Last week I bought this piece of art from @BitPopArt

I zapsnagged it from Nostr, which allowed me to be in the top 10 daily zappers for the first time ever: https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsw2ye9drnvtv3khh7l7q7c4c7q2nh62q7cwxjm7zvcjudaker7pcsq2nfuy 😎

And because I'm also a merchant, plugging my own store of metal seed phrase backups: https://seedkeys.xyz/ where I accept both on-chain and Lightning.

Yeah, same. I was broke when I discovered BTC. These free sats were much appreciated.

Man, this website allowed me to stack so much over the years. I'm glad I used it. And I could always withdraw, until last time... I knew what I was doing, so I haven't lost generational wealth.