328 sats \ 5 replies \ @orthwyrm 3 Oct 2023 \ on: Bitcoin hardware wishlist bitcoin
An idea for every category you listed...
Health & Fitness
- Something like a Fitbit where you earn one sat for every step you take.
Energy & HVAC
- Central heating systems powered by ASICs. I know some people do this already but would like to see it at scale with noise cancellation.
Networking & Internet
- A phone that doubles as a hardware wallet with in-built secure element. Also uses this to sign Nostr and email messages.
Wearables & Fashion
- Micro hardware wallets that look like inconspicuous objects you can take across borders without drawing attention. Embedded into a necklace, say.
Food & Nutrition
- There's gotta be a market for cooking food with ASIC heat. Imagine being paid to grill steak.
Education
- "Bitcoin For Boomers" education package so they ape in their retirement funds and pump my bags.
Computing
- Running a full node on a phone would be pretty cool.
Central heating systems powered by ASICs
Check out CryptoCloaks S9 Space Heater case and free design guide. Looks FIRE and runs over WiFi at like 45dB so basically makes no noise
phone that doubles as a hardware wallet with in-built secure element
Most high end phones already have some form of SE, eg the Pixels have their own "Titan M2 security chip". There's also other phones that have crypto wallets built in, they're trash. Also the entire point of a HWW is to be physically separate from your malware infested phone / computer. Trust us, the way it's done now is best :)
Micro hardware wallets that look like inconspicuous objects you can take across borders without drawing attention
To be a proper HWW it needs to have a screen, so that kind of limits their size / design. OTOH, seed words can be engraved into any object / thing so this essentially already exists. You can further protect them with a Passphrase which can be anything (rather than the obvious 12/24 words) so it wouldn't draw any attention. BitBox02 is a great HWW that's low key and looks like a media card reader / USB stick. Foundation Passport also looks like an old school Nokia phone. Last one is the SeedSigner which can be 3D printed to look like anything you want, best one we've seen is the one that looks like a game controller lol
cooking food with ASIC heat
If your ASIC is getting THIS hot... you've got some serious problems lol
Bitcoin For Boomers
Unfortunately many Boomers hold the majority of their wealth in the house they live in... so to ape in they'd have to become homeless or substantially down grade which is unlikely
Running a full node on a phone would be pretty cool.
Indeed
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Thanks for the comprehensive reply. To be honest I spat out that list of half-baked ideas during a boring meeting I was stuck in, so didn't give it too much thought...!
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Last one is the SeedSigner which can be 3D printed to look like anything you want, best one we've seen is the one that looks like a game controller lol
3D printed cases make a lot of sense to me. The advantage I suppose is that you can oversaturate the market with many different designs to the point where it would never be obvious to an attacker what is inside the case.
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I like the phone with a secure element idea, and the one about hardware wallets that look like normal objects. Of course, if you are trying to disguise your keys as an every day object then you can just store slips of paper with seed words on them inside the object or something like that, hidden compartment style
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Agreed that it's easy to conceal / memorise the seed. But the nice thing about the HWW is that a) it's also a signing device, b) seed isn't accessable to attackers without the PIN and c) easy to destroy as attackers can be thwarted with a "brick me" PIN.
HWWs are great, I just wish the market offered more discrete designs. The Bitbox is alright as it kinda looks like a USB stick, but the others have their brand / logo stamped all over them.
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Fair. Coldcard, especially their more recent version, looks a lot more like a calculator or something, although anyone who knows what a Coldcard looks like would instantly recognise it as one
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