Its the industry. Hardware wallets are here to do a job, that job is not creating seeds and it is not guaranteeing that you can't lose your keys.
People got the second rule, now they need to get the first.
The industry wanted to make themselves more saleable so they included and promoted their convenience based bad practices.
Now we pivot. Devices need to advise people to do it the right way just like they convinced people to write down and look after their seed words on top of having a device.
These devices still serve a purpose, but the two selling points were never their primary purpose.
SeedSigner (nprofile…u2rf) is probably the only one that got it right to be honest. I think I'd like to see them downplay the camera based seed word generator too, because no company is ever going to guarantee their own seed generators, so we need to promote DIY guides more aggressively now.
Big Barry Bitcoin
npub1pk…tpxa6
2026-07-31 20:02:31 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…ppz2
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npub1pktmatjk0l8vn3jhfuwxaasjd65kn4ye9sce3egup7k993f8fg2q5tpxa6Published at
2026-07-31 20:02:31 UTCEvent JSON
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