| ▲ | dansquizsoft 5 hours ago | |
I don't get what you are saying here re no sovereignty with no (custom) hardware. Grab the Bitcoin white paper and an airgapped PC with a fresh Debian install. Implement the algorithm(s) in the white paper to generate yourself a private key and then a wallet address from that. Send bitcoin to that wallet. Write down the private key and wallet address, store it somewhere safe, bury it in the garden, whatever. No special hardware is required for any of this... Or am I missing something? | ||
| ▲ | duvall69 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Yes, you're missing that grabbing an airgapped PC with a fresh debian install is less fool-proof than you are proposing. The victims here thought they were buying an airgapped device but due to a supply-chain attack they were not actually airgapped. Of course the odds of their being a secret modem in a random PC you buy to be your own homebrew ledger device are nearly 0 -- but it's certainly not impossible or even difficult for a motivated attacker -- it's just unlikely because there would usually not be enough value in snooping on a device like that. What you are talking about is just security through obscurity, not actual security. | ||
| ▲ | expedition32 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Ah yes real mass adoption strategy right there. | ||