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If I wasn’t working on ecash, I’d be working on making seed phrases obsolete. They’re the worst possible UX imaginable.

"Hey, we have the best engineered money in human history…but before you can use it, you have to grab a piece of paper and write down 12 random words. BTW if anyone ever finds this paper, they can steal your money forever."

Deeply unserious UX.

I think seed phrases are the best solution we have right now. But it’s naive and short sighted to think they’ll remain the standard for self custody / backup, or that we can’t design something 10x better and just as secure.
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Bilthon 4mo ago

I've heard this so many times before 🙄. But what's the alternative really? Let's see, the idea is to have an analogous backup because you don't want to trust an electronic device that WILL break down eventually. And the seed phrase has to be as random as possible. Having to write down words IMO is the lowest we can place the bar at. What age do you need to be in order to fail this?

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