I think HWW are pushed because it gives you something physical to kind of get your head around "holding" your bitcoin and also because its something you can sell people and make money, thing against it I own several HWW I think they're a great addition to the custody model and gets people thinking and talking about their custody solutions

I do think that in some cases it might distract people from taking custody because they "feel" they need this device though



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The Achilles Heel of BTC Hardware Wallets

Have to give you a lot of credit for covering pretty much every angle in this long-standing debate. I get quite annoyed with the most public figures talking about HW wallets as if it's the obvious and only correct solution to holding bitcoin.

If I have one tiny criticism it's that you frame the 'general purpose hardware' approach as being only about extremely techy things like seedsigner (great project, but yes, techy), but one or more generic laptops are perfectly viable if never connected to internet.