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dragontamer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

you are talking to someone whos been doing cryptography since the 90s, the answer hasn’t changed since then, you cant

So we can’t trust hardware wallets then. Isn’t that… a problem? Something that needs to be solved?

This is pretty fundamental to the entirety of blockchain. If we can’t trust that Alice is truly Alice, then where the hell is everything else built on top of this crap?

Do I use them for my personal stuff? No, the vast majority of my holdings are stored in physical cold wallets.

Why do you trust that cold wallet? Are you sure they didn’t leak the key somehow? We’ve already established that there’s no trust or reason to trust them.

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