The goal was to gather together the opinions of as many people as possible to show that there are best practices that we pretty much all agree upon and direct new bitcoiners quickly and easily to a bitcoin storage solution or wallet that fits their needs.
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We could definitely use more reviewers, but already it is clear that there is nearly complete consensus on anything that a new bitcoiner cares about.
(if you would like to provide a review please DM me - we need it)
Would love it if you guys could provide reviews of your own stuff and others.
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There are roughly 50 reviews already and you can see the raw data by clicking "see all review data" or the reviews provided by an individual by clicking their name.
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If you did provide a review and it is not showing on the site this is not intentional. I don't think I lost any, but if I did DM me and I'll fix asap.
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Also, if you would like to see the criteria for the "fast and easy" and the "high security" display area it is in the tabs by those names and you can see how it is filtered so if you have any feedback on those hit me up too.
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#bitcoin is amazingly resilient. Even if an attacker broke the code or we suffered a nuclear war that bombed us back to the stone age the UTXO set would be recovered and bitcoin would come back online with existing holders largely being unaffected
HOWEVER...
If I was a central banker my focus would not be on attacking the network, but in discrediting the UTXO set itself.
This might actually be cost effective given the sad state of self custody.
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A small number of generally poorly funded and incompetent startups are trusted to secure significant sums of bitcoin in hardware wallets or solutions like Casa.
This is even worse because much of the bitcoin is being held by blatantly custodial services.
When someone objects to bitcoin because it won’t allow for big government or harms the environment don’t address the objection. Instead...
Simply explain that their opinion doesn’t matter anymore. They have lived in a world where mob might makes right so they assume their opinion of something has an impact upon it - because for things not government hard this is true at this soviet moment in history...
But #bitcoin only needs a small percentage of the world to choose to hold it for world dominance to become inevitable in spite of the opposition. Indeed it’s already happening at an accelerating rate.
They have become obsolete. The mob has been dethroned...
Proud to announce that YetiCold.com 2.0 is released!
Thanks to the great work being done by @bitcoincoreorg we are most proud of the code we deleted.
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Descriptor wallets are now supported by Bitcoin Core. This means all of the send and receiving features, everything from selecting a destination address to dealing with change, is no longer a Yeti thing.
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With offline signing in bitcoin core Yeti no longer creates raw transactions and moves them to the offline device - the bitcoin core UI handles everything with PSBT!
Techn gets adopted rapidly and in very unpredictable ways.
Text based search (google) looked lazy and sloppy and many expected “topic maps” to be the killer app of the internet.
Social media in many ways is a poorly designed email system merged with digital scrapbooking
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Merged with a dynamic and super sloppy mailing list.
The iPhone was a super obvious upgrade to the early windows phones as soon as high fidelity touchscreens existed, but the App looked completely backwards when all was going “web app.”
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So we should expect the #bitcoin tipping point to be equally unexpected and strange. Even a killer gaming experience, or a “like” = a “sat” seems like a very reasonable possibility so we should expect something much weirder.
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...”