{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Rich Nost wrote","author_name":"Rich Nost (npub1zw…yvpu5)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub1zw7ftkfpezmtym8n2j2fvnd0smunztl9pyjys0fxdqne08vq397s5yvpu5","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"I think it's pretty apparent that hardware wallets and BIP-39 did not make self-custody easier or more secure. \n\nThey made it look easy and secure, but the teetering stack of caveats you have to learn (usually the hard way) represent just as much effort as self-custody was before HWW's existed. \n\nYou could just as easily have learned to rip the radio guts out of a laptop and make it an offline signer."}