Yes, we have a side project. We just don't think the market is quite there or needs it at all. Because LN txns are low value, phones are perfectly good for it.

Can't stop, wont stop...

Yes, it's too spammy and github doesn't have good moderation tools. We tried having it open but was a disaster. Please submit issues to support at coinkite dot com

WIF support is coming next (ie the OPENDIME private key)

For me the main use case was being able to transfer funds from older seed and/or other devices without exposing them. So loading these seeds as temp on mine and export electrum file for sweeping them. There is no limit on how many temporary seeds you can load, it's just one at a time. Once you reboot they clear and revert back to your stored seed.

Maybe you are confusing these with BIP85 seeds (deterministic seeds)

It think the big phone manufactures will add bitcoin wallets natively to their secure enclaves.

Interstellar

Way back then, we thought of the concept of UTXOs suspended in the sky being controlled by a signer on the ground. Like a Kite...

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Hey slush! We do support USB use both via E2EE direct HWI or by VirtualDisk emulation, we just don't like it and recommend the better safety of SneakerNet.

USB spec and implementations are a cluster f., it's hard to guarantee it (on the host side) and we just don't know bugs we could have exposing ppl with the added attack surface.

This presentation goes over my opinion about USB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p69ACzYQQys

Sao Paulo. I don't have formal technical background. Also very lucky to have a extremely talented co-founder.

If you are from Brazil/Latam you immediately understand debasement and bail-ins. LOL

Nothing like being taken for a ride by the government a few times to get why separating money and state is so important.

I'm biased to say yes, but realistically speaking what we need right now is better client software. More app and desktop wallets trying different UXes and goals. That to me is the current bottle neck.

We are working on many things, but I think the best is to start people with TAPSIGNER. It's very easy and natural to tap to sign.

We are playing with it but still no guarantees as the hardware might be capable enough.

Chaumian banks are not new, but they become more interesting with the advent of Bitcoin/LN as onramps. I think it's a very interesting model to be tried in the market, specially in the developing world with lower value transactions. as for hardware, I can see the need for a federation signer HSM and maybe the Tapsginer model could work too if/when support added.

Better client software and more accessible onramps, bitcoin's volatility will still be too much for the developing world's pocket to be able to handle. They don't have enough float, so for now I see stable coins as their best tool.

Undisclosed location, eh ;)

Nunchuck, Electrum, Sparrow, Wasabi, Cold Core and Core come to mind.

We are experimenting more, but I think PW management needs to be it's own solution. Better a third party puts the needed effort into it. We like what we offer at the moment with BIP85 for Seeds and PWs.

I would rather people keep their Bitcoin separate from their other activities. Maybe get two CCs.

COLDCARD is MIT + CC, this means it's free to view, alter, share, gift, sell. The only restriction is commercial, ie you can't clone the code raise VC and compete with the original code makers. COLDCARD has always been greatly single source, this means not community code, but written by us.

Oooof, so many, we have boxes full of prototypes and other ideas. We tried Debit Card and PoS, we were very successful being Bitgo before Bitgo, as backend to companies like BitMex and Coinapult but holding ppl's bags was not our dream in life so we closed that down. We designed a COLDCARD much earlier but never made it. We even released but never launched a web file selling site using bitcoin. There was also a CloudFlare replacement "CloudFire" with in browser proof of work, but that never went anywhere. That's at least what comes to mind right away...

I think how incredible the invention of the Difficulty Adjustment was and how it solved the two general's problem. And how ignorant about economics and money I was. Bitcoin's best gift is an economics education.

I blame the Brazilian upbringing...

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Bitcoin is not for everyone, it's simply available to everyone. Unfortunately we will see a similar distribution of people getting screwed by banks, they will just be bitcoin banks. Only thing is now people have an option, but fewer than ppl think will take that personal responsibility choice.

We can send ECC calculators pretty much to the whole world, excluding sanctions list.

I came for the tech, very early days bitcoin didn't have much economic point. So payments was the obvious use of it. We built Bitcoin payment terminals and debit cards around that idea, that was both too early and the wrong use. As I went from being ignorant about economics to having a better a grasp it became clear Bitcoin was the perfect Store of Value, predictable supply and uncesorable. And as expected all the MoE properties take a back sit to that, but are now being extremely well developed on L2.

one with holes and one without at each location.

Unlikely, it's been superseded by SATSCARD

HODL.