I can never understand why signing authorizations offline never took off.

If I can physically see the inputs and outputs, it doesn’t take much to have a pretty good idea that it’s not bidirectonally compromising the cold wallet machine before sneakerneting them back and forth on a printed QR code.

I think armory wallet was the big thing for this? It’s been a while.

Meanwhile the best approach people commonly have today is a “hard wallet” that plugs into a usb port (yuck!)

yeah its a lost art, and everyone’s/wallet’s default reliance on clearnet remote RPC basically kills all privacy

I hope this doesnt become like email, where self hosting everything winds up blacklisting you in various ways