alt Hacker Newsnot your keys, not your crypto
not your hardware, not your keys
not your chips, not your hardware
not manufactured in house, not your chips
not your designs, not manufactured by you
not designed by you personally, not your designs
ad infinitum. To be truly secure, you must first learn to survive alone in the wilderness and smelt tin
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And at that point, why do you still need to transact with other humans, securely or otherwise?
Our grandparents stored their crypto under their matresses.
Hence why governments have generally ended up issuing and securing currency.
This is why the assertion that crypto allows you and you alone to control your capital is a fallacy. Depends on your threat model of course...
Every cryptographic system has a trust assumption somewhere
Yes, that is true.
big bang or bust.
ah the good old C-x M-c M-smelting
Crypto people keep rediscovering we live in a society.
... and smelt tin
I'll just order my crucible and tongs off Alibaba.
Wait a second...