GUY SWANN SHARES A PHOTO OF HIS TRAVEL SAFE! 🔥

BEST OF ALL, HE’S NOT STUPID ENOUGH KEEP MONEY IN A CREDIT TOKEN THAT SOMEBODY ELSE WILL PRINT 3 TRILLION MORE OF THIS YEAR.

(did you know twitter throttles your post if you use the word "stupid"? 🤦‍♂️ )

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that is 2 insecure devices in one photo, congrats on the record

You have exactly zero idea how i use these or what level of entropy the pins that creates the keys have if you are referring to the tapsigners. They are a perfect trade off for mobile wallets to avoid ever having keys on your device for general use balances.

No it’s the Coldcard and Model T

Model One* sorry, fuck

Model One has no SE. Coldcard has SEs known to be broken and is also vulnerable to supply chain attacks.

The Tapsigners are more secure than them and use a proper SE-chip.

What are SEs?

Secure element

My model 1 is my oldest device and i still use it for multisig because the thing refuses to stop working. I don't haven't even updated it in like 8 years, lol. There's nothing wrong with the Mk4 and the security model also isn't 100% dependent on the SEs, keys are based on a handshake between 3 segregated parts of the device.

And all 3 parts of the device are proven to be weak.

I work on secure elements.

The secure elements used by the Mk4, one of them is a dated platform that had a low security level even at the date of release.

The other is also in the same bucket, and to make it worse is made by a company with low SE experience.

MCUs are trivial to extract secrets from, there’s more documented attacks than I can count.

It doesn’t matter if you could easily execute a supply chain attack though, which you can.

Which hardware wallets do you recommend?

Worst for security, Coldcard, BitBox, Trezor Model One.

A bit better is the Foundation Passport Core but many of its features are pointless.

Better is Ledger Nano S, anything from Trezor with a SE, Satochip, or the device that I am working on (unreleased)

I can’t say any of them are ideal though, not yet.

Cool thanks 🙏

Disclosure: I have never been sponsored and hopefully will not need to be, ever.

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+1 on Bitcoin Nora’s question.

Well, I'm not at all worried about it and would generally disagree anyway. Literally every "exploit" or "weakness" i've read about over the years for almost all major hardware devices (ignoring the literal trash) are such specific situations or conditions that it feels pointless to argue, imo. but I'm not that invested in the nuance here anyway and its why i use multisig, so i don't have to care that much.

Multisig fixes 99% of problems.

Spell it 'tupid from now on and stop referring to yourself in the third person. It's creeping me out. 😅

lol, I was copying the DRAKE post.

David Bennett does not like this. David Bennett doesn't like Drake either. David Bennett just wants to chillax with some Public Enemy and Enya.

Do you ever get asked about your hardware when crossing borders?

Negative. Not once. And i travel a lot

And if they did, they'd probably ask me how much bitcoin I have on it, and I'd truthfully say "none," because hardware wallets don't store bitcoin. 😄

What kind of demented, low-grade moron keeps piles of cash in a safe like it's 1835? At the very least have the decency to turn it into precious metals 😂

Drake's flexing a glorified recycling bin overflowing with soon to be worthless paper.

Guy Swann's got a sovereign, unseizable fortune secured by code, a device, and his brain.

One's a victim of the state; the other is his own bank.

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Legend.

That is how much fiat i all wish i had for the coming bear.

Here is a picture of mine

mmmmm, she's nice.

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