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Why Greg Maxwell thinks #bircoin hardware wallets are a bad idea (even for noobs).

Greg is a legend that, among many other heroic accomplishments, discovered covert

ASIC boost - arguably the worst security flaw ever found with bitcoin.

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“I don't think very highly of hardware wallets. They're opaque, largely unauditable. Most are crapped up with sketchy altcoin support that forces them into objectively less secure cryptographic code and makes them harder to review.”

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“They're an extremely attractive target for supply chain attacks. An old laptop that never goes on-line is a lot better IMO, except where space/portability are a concern...”

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