Thread by @JWWeatherman_

Damn it Greg Maxwell, Adam Back, Nick Szabo and Tim May!

Can't you let me have one original idea that I'm not accidentally stealing credit for?

Hardware wallets r dumb.

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"The badness of the supply chain vulnerability is so severe that I just cannot recommend a hardware wallet except for casual low/moderate value use where it doesn't really matter what security properties you use."

-Greg Maxwell

"At the moment I think the best option at the intersection of security and usability may be a linux laptop/desktop that never runs any software other than your wallet. This doesn't require being a super-security wizard..."

-Greg Maxwell

"The only ways I've seen to mitigate this vulnerability are to avoid the use of specialized hardware (as it is much more expensive to tamper with every computer being sold than the tiny number of hardware wallets), or to use multifactor security."

-Greg Maxwell